Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Promote Circle Peter Bergs Lone Survivor Emmett/Furla Financing For Universal

EXCLUSIVE: Emmett/Furla Films is originating aboard to invest in Lone Survivor, and director Peter Berg is within talks with Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Ben Promote to experience three from the four lead Navy Closes. Universal Pictures, which developed the film, will distribute. An adaptation from the book by Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor informs the harrowing story of methods Luttrell and the Navy SEAL team people fought against to remain alive after being ambushed in Afghanistan in 2005 by Taliban forces throughout a covert mission within the Hindu Kush mountain region, in which the team visited kill a terrorist leader. Wahlberg will have Luttrell in Berg’s followup to Battleship, which stars Kitsch. Berg and Universal first started developing the project at Universal once the filmmaker signed on for Battleship. At that time, movies with sand inside them and war weren’t working, however the opening-weekend grosses of Act Of Valor indicate that audiences are once more hungry for heroic war tales, especially individuals including Navy Closes. Kathryn Bigelow and The new sony Pictures are becoming going ahead having a drama turning round the Navy SEAL Team 6′s search and killing of 9/11 terror attack mastermind Osama bin Laden. Lone Survivor is really a different film, but it's likely to get going ahead this fall. Berg and Film 44 partner Sarah Aubrey, Akiva Goldsman, Craig Spikings is going to be producers in addition to Randall Emmett and George Furla. Wahlberg will probably be involved with a creating capacity also. Berg, who covered the center East terrain formerly using the taut drama The Dominion, has make the focus on that one. He authored the Lone Survivorscript after embedding having a SEAL team for any month in Iraq, an event that actually gave him an opportunity to observe how they get the job done. Berg desired to result in the film immediately, but 2 yrs ago the studio made him a good deal: direct Battleship after which follow with Lone Survivor. The timing hasn’t hurt, whatsoever. Bin Ladens dying has removed the way in which with this, a film that'll be an unapologetically loyal film that honors and pays homage for an incredible number of badass men that do this,” Berg explained last May. “The film is going to be a little like Black Hawk Lower, however it will concentrate on the quartet, that is less men than that film. The mission looked like the murder mission that got bin Laden, but things got complicated once they went into three kids as well as an old guy, Berg explained. Underneath the rules of engagement, they might have wiped out them, however they made the decision to allow them go and place their chances, despite the fact that they understood these folks may likely talk. Soon after, the mission needed to be aborted once the Closes found themselves under fire from about 250 Al-Qaeda soldiers. Once the dust removed and following a save helicopter was inflated with a rocket-powered grenade, 15 SEAL people were wiped out, and also the lone survivor was Luttrell. An enormous land assault was completed, but at that time Marcus was introduced to shelter by an Afghan tribe that fought against from the Taliban until Luttrell might be saved, Berg stated. The teams leader, Mike Murphy, was posthumously granted the Congressional Medal of Recognition. This puts Emmett/Furla Films principals into another major feature. They're preparing 2 Guns with Denzel Washington and Wahlberg for Universal the Sylvester Stallone-Arnold Schwarzenegger-starrer The Tomb for Lionsgate/Summit the romantic comedy Rule #1, with Reese Witherspoon the experienceOrthriller Empire Condition starring Dwayne Manley and Lucky Strike, that is in discussions to star Vince Vaughn and become directed by Tony Scott, with EFF creating with Scott Free Productions. EFF just wrapped the thriller Damaged City with Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Johnson, which Fox will release in The month of january the Stephen Frears-directed comedy Lay The Favourite with Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Zeta-Johnson and Vaughn, that the Weinstein Company acquired after its Sundance premiere the thriller Frozen Ground with John Cusack, Nicolas Cage and Vanessa Hudgens the drama Fire With Fire with Josh Duhamel, Willis and Rosario Dawson the experience-thriller Self employed with Robert P Niro, Forest Whitaker and Curtis 50 Cent Jackson and also the David Ayer-directed mystery crime thriller Finish Of Watch, which lately obtained a $two million advance and $20 million P&Dedication from Open Road.