Pair Mark Wahlberg with director Peter Berg, and you’ve signed yourself up for gritty, hard-hitting action from two of Hollywood’s toughest. The pair have been making movies together for years now, from Lone Survivor to 2016’s double-whammy of Deepwater Horizon and Patriots Day — and now the pair are back with Mile 22.
Where most of their collaborations have been dramatisations of true stories, they’re on firmly fictional territory this time. Wahlberg is James Silva, an American intelligence officer tasked with escorting Li Noor (The Raid star Iko Uwais) across 22 miles of explosive terrain. We’ve got an exclusive new image of Wahlberg all tooled up and ready for action, as seen in the forthcoming issue of Empire.
“He doesn’t care about right or wrong,” Wahlberg told Empire of Silva. “He has a job to do and he’s gonna do it.” And with Berg calling the film “intense” and “relentless”, Mile 22 is shaping up to be a post-Summer action treat. The film hits UK cinemas on 19 September.
Read more about Mile 22 in the August issue of Empire, which hits newsstands on Thursday 12 July. Want the magazine delivered to your door every month with an exclusive alternative cover design? Sign up for a subscription here{
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