With Peter Berg already on board to produce the action thriller Mile 22, you might have wondered whether he’d reach out to Mark Wahlberg about a role. You’d be right to wonder, because Wahlberg is now locking down a deal to star in the film{
Word broke back in March that The Raid** stalwart Iko Uwais and UFC champ-turned-actress Ronda Rousey were part of the film, which sees a CIA field officer (Wahlberg) and an Indonesian cop (Uwais) thrown together while transporting a compromised informant from the centre of the city to an airfield 22 miles away. En route, they have to contend with corrupt police and heavily armed locals, all of which we’d guess will make Uwais sigh, raise his fists and say, “not this again...”
How Rousey fits in remains to be seen, although we could see her as a member of the squad trying to make it to the plane. Berg had before opted to simply act as producer, but he’s now slipping into the director’s chair to bring Graham Roland’s script to life.
Berg and Wahlberg are at work on real-life oilrig disaster drama Deepwater Horizon, which should be out next year. Uwais has been rumoured as playing some part in (and bringing his fight expertise to) Star Wars: The Force Awakens, while Rousey is attached to action thriller The Athena Project.