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Universal’s ‘Lone Survivor’ Gets January 2014 Release Date

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 10, 2013 @ 12:37pm PDTTags: Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg, Universal Pictures

Mark Wahlberg-starrer Lone Survivor will bow on January 10, 2014. It will face off against Warner Bros’ sports comedy Grudge Match and Lionsgate’s horror pic Jessabelle. Based on the New York Times bestseller, Lone Survivor tells the harrowing story of four Navy SEALs on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative when they are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Lone Survivor is directed by Peter Berg (Hancock, Friday Night Lights). Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch and Eric Bana also star. Universal Pictures, which developed the movie with Berg, is distributing. Berg penned the adaptation after embedding with a SEAL team for a month in Iraq. Emmett/Furla Films financed the pic.

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Peter Berg Taps Alexander Ludwig For Navy SEAL Shane Patton In ‘Lone Survivor’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 23, 2012 @ 4:14pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Alexander Ludwig has landed the role of Navy SEAL Shane Patton in Lone Survivor, the Peter Berg-directed adaptation of the Marcus Luttrell book. Ludwig plays a soldier on a covert mission that goes wrong, joining … Read More »

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Eric Bana Negotiating For ‘Lone Survivor’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 13, 2012 @ 12:29pm PDTTags: Eric Bana, Lone Survivor, Peter Berg
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Eric Bana is in talks to costar in Lone Survivor, the Peter Berg-directed drama that is being financed by Emmett/Furla Films for a September 25 start in New Mexico. Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster … Read More »

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Emile Hirsch In Talks To Play Final SEAL Role In ‘Lone Survivor’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 20, 2012 @ 3:21pm PDTTags: Emile Hirsch, Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Emile Hirsch is in talks to play Navy SEAL Danny Dietz in Lone Survivor, the Peter Berg-directed drama that is being financed by Emmett/Furla Films for a September 25 start in New Mexico. Mark Wahlberg, … Read More »

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Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster Circle Peter Berg’s ‘Lone Survivor;’ Emmett/Furla Financing For Universal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 28, 2012 @ 4:39pm PSTTags: Ben Foster, Emmett/Furla Films, Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg, Taylor Kitsch, Universal
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Emmett/Furla Films is coming aboard to finance Lone Survivor, and director Peter Berg is in talks with Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Ben Foster to play three of the four lead Navy SEALs. Universal Pictures, which developed the movie, will distribute. An adaptation of the book by Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor tells the harrowing story of how Luttrell and his Navy SEAL team members fought to stay alive after being ambushed in Afghanistan in 2005 by Taliban forces during a covert mission in the Hindu Kush mountain region, where the team went to kill a terrorist leader. Wahlberg will play Luttrell in Berg’s followup to Battleship, which stars Kitsch.

Berg and Universal first began developing the project at Universal when the filmmaker signed on for Battleship. At the time, movies with sand in them and war weren’t working, but the opening-weekend grosses of Act Of Valor indicate that audiences are once again hungry for heroic war tales, especially those involving Navy SEALs. Kathryn Bigelow and Sony Pictures are getting underway with a drama revolving around the Navy SEAL Team 6′s hunt and killing of 9/11 terror attack mastermind Osama bin Laden. Lone Survivor is a different film, but it is expected to get underway this fall. Berg and Film 44 partner Sarah Aubrey, Akiva Goldsman, Barry Spikings will be producers as well as Randall Emmett and George Furla. Wahlberg will likely be involved in a producing capacity also.

Berg, who covered the Middle East terrain previously with the taut drama The Kingdom, has put in the work on this one. He wrote the Lone Survivor script after embedding with a SEAL team for a month in Iraq, an experience that really gave him a chance to see how they do their job. Berg wanted to make the film immediately, but two years ago the studio made him a bargain: direct Battleship and then follow with Lone Survivor. The timing hasn’t hurt, at all. Read More »

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Disney Won’t Fight The Navy, Withdraws Application For SEAL Team 6 Trademark

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 3:00pm PDTTags: Kathryn Bigelow, Lone Survivor, Mark Boal, Osama Bin Laden, Peter Berg, Seal Team 6, The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Co. has reversed course and withdrawn its applications to trademark SEAL Team 6, the name of the elite Navy unit that killed Osama bin Laden. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Navy filed its own … Read More »

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Universal, Peter Berg Plot January Start For Navy SEAL Saga ‘Lone Survivor’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 3:38pm PDTTags: Battleship, Cannes, James Cameron, Lone Survivor, Osama Bin Laden, Peter Berg, Stephen Colbert
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from steering Battleship, Peter Berg and Universal Pictures are moving right into a January start date on Lone Survivor, an adaptation of the book by Marcus Luttrell. The film tells the harrowing story of how he and his Navy SEAL team members fought to stay alive after being ambushed in Afghanistan in 2005 by Taliban forces during a covert mission in the Hindu Kush mountain region, where the team went to kill a terrorist leader. Berg has asked his Battleship star Taylor Kitsch to play one of four SEAL team members who fight for their lives. After meeting actors for the past two weeks, Berg will set the rest of the quartet soon.

While movies involving sand and the Middle East have been assiduously avoided by Hollywood after several movies didn’t find audiences, the killing of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALs has set in motion several films about these operatives and their dangerous missions. Disney trademarked the term SEAL Team Six, and one of the most talked about titles at Cannes has been the drama that The Hurt Locker team of director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal will shoot in the fall about that SEAL Team’s long tactical campaign that culminated with the death of bin Laden. There was rumor that Universal might be one of the suitors, but the studio clearly has its own Navy SEAL movie. Read More »

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