Deadline reports:
Berg, who covered the Middle East terrain previously with the taut drama The Kingdom, wrote the Lone Survivor 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. Because desert-set pictures haven’t scored at the box office, Berg questioned whether the studio would move forward. Bin Laden’s death has changed all that, and it has become a question of which studio gets there first.
That’s three films coming out that deal with a Navy SEALS unit- Survivor by Berg, Kathryn Bigelow’s picture about the hunt for Bin Laden and whatever Disney intends to do with the stupid copywriting of ‘Seal Team Six’ (which they got away with). I don’t think it’s a bad thing by any means. I really loved Berg’s “Kingdom” a number of years ago, and I’m glad to see that project gaining momentum.
What do you think, Int’l friends? Interested?
