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Wahlberg, Kitsch Into Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 15: Actor Mark Wahlberg arrives at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 15, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Photo: Jason Merritt/2012 Getty Images

Hollywood’s in the middle of a very potent Navy SEAL moment. Act of Valor, which stars real-life SEALs, topped the box office this past weekend; meanwhile, Kathryn Bigelow has cast up her new movie, which details the SEAL mission to capture Osama bin Laden. Now, Deadline reports that Peter Berg is in talks with Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, and Ben Foster to play SEALs in his next movie, Lone Survivor, which is based on a real 2005 mission in Afghanistan where a group of special forces found themselves ambushed by the Taliban. (What happens to them? Well, the title is kind of a spoiler alert.)

Wahlberg, Kitsch Into Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor