Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Ben Foster are in talks to play three of the four lead Navy SEALs in Battleship and Friday Night Light’s helmer Peter Berg's Lone Survivor, says Darkhorizons.com, via Deadline.
Berg describes the film as similar to Black Hawk Down and also says that it will be "unapologetically patriotic" after he spent a month bunking with SEALs in Afghanistan. The plot is based on the true story of what happened to four such soldiers, who fought to stay alive after being ambushed by Taliban forces in 2005. The title gives away how many of them survive...
These army/marine movies struggle to do anything different, really. Black Hawk Down kind of set the bar and even then that was unfollowable at points. Still, Berg knows what he's doing.
