Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg Want to Make a MILE 22 Film Trilogy and I Want to See it

Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg have been attached to this Mile 22 project since 2015. It was also announced in the initial report that Ronda Rousey and Iko Uwais (The Raid) would be joining them on their filmmaking journey.

Well, it was announced today that the film is moving forward and that they are looking to turn this story into a full trilogy. This is also a film that Wahlberg wants to define his career. 

If you're not familiar with the story, it follows a CIA agent (Wahlberg) stationed in Indonesia who is tasked with transporting a compromised informant (Rousey) from the center of the city to a getaway plane at an airport 22 miles away. While en route, they must battle corrupt police, criminal overlords and heavily armed locals, all hell-bent on taking them out before they reach their plane.

Sounds like a hell of an intense and entertaining film! During the STX Entertainment presentation at CinemaCon, Berg hyped the film a bit saying:

“Mark and I have made three films now that are pretty heavy, to put it mildly. For us, to do Mile 22 and something that’s fictional, and what we hope to be an intelligent, adult action film that’s got a lot of muscle and intensity…It’s a piece of fiction we’re very excited about it. We’re coming at you with a big ass action movie.”

Berg and Wahlberg have made some great films together that include Lone Survivor, Patriots Day, and Deepwater Horizon. They were all great! So, of course, I'm up for another project from this creative team. 

If everything goes as planned this story will be a trilogy of films. This is exciting for Walhberg because a film like this will give him his defining moment as an action hero. He explains: 

“I’ve been able to make a lot of different movies in a lot of different genres, 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.”

There are no other details on the film or when it will be released, but it sounds like it's going to be a great action-packed film project worth looking forward to!

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