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?
dont forget about james suh, erik kristensen, shane patton and all the other seals and nightstalkers killed in the rescue either. they didnt hesitate to get on that helo when they heard there friends were trouble.
His team does not survive the ambush thats when his team dies just he makes it.
The plot is a Seal named Marcus Luttrell makes it through Seal training and is sent on a 4 man sniper team too assassinate or capture a al Qaeda Leader but is discovered creeping around the mountains in the mountains that boarder Afghanistan and Pakistan. They are then in a firefight that leaves on survivor the try to keep from capture. It is about the largest loss of life in SEALs history.
This better be Saving Private Ryan good this book was amazing. And is my inspiration to overcome my training in Special OPs, over the next3 years. I just hope that hollywood or any investors don’t change the ending. Or the outcome of the end of the mission.
I have yet to see a good flick about Special Forces other than maybe Blackhawk down.