Filmmaker Peter Berg and actor and producer Mark Wahlberg have quite the bff working relationship. Having collaborated on three films so far, including “Lone Survivor,” “Deepwater Horizon,” and “Patriots Day,” he creative duo’s fourth collaboration will be the action thriller “Mile 22.”
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“I’ve been able to make a lot of different movies in a lot of different genres,” Wahlberg announced to audiences at CinemaCon last year, “and I still don’t feel like I have the movie role that really kind of defines ‘me.’ When I say me and my body of work, I’m really hoping this is the thing. I’m hoping the first thing you think of when you think Mark Wahlberg is ‘Mile 22.’”
Berg and Wahlberg stated that they plan on making “Mile 22” the first entry of a trilogy. All three of their previous collaborations have been action dramas based on real-life events. Berg stated that he hopes “Mile 22,” Berg and Wahlberg’s first fiction, will be “an intelligent, adult action film that’s got a lot of muscle and intensity.” Read the official synopsis below.
In a visceral modern thriller from the director of Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg stars as James Silva, an operative of the CIA’s most highly-prized and least-understood unit. Aided by a top-secret tactical command team, Silva must retrieve and transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to Mile 22 for extraction before the enemy closes in.
“Mile 22” is written by “Jack Ryan” scribe Graham Roland and Lea Carpenter. It co-stars Lauren Cohan, Ronda Rousey, John Malkovich, and Iko Uwais. Principal photography began in November in Atlanta, Georgia, and continued through February in Bogota, Colombia.
STX Entertainment will release “Mile 22” in theaters on August 3.