Mark Wahlberg set for “Mile 22”

Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg are in negotiations with STX Entertainment, the newly launched film and TV studio, to team up for action movie “Mile 22”. UFC champion-turned-actress Ronda Rousey and Iko Uwais, who starred in the acclaimed martial-arts movies “The Raid: Redemption” and its sequel, are also starring in the movie. Berg will direct while Wahlberg toplines.

The Graham Roland-written script tells of a CIA agent (Wahlberg) stationed in Indonesia who is tasked with transporting a compromised informant from the center of the city to an awaiting 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.

Wahlberg and Berg are currently shooting “Deepwater Horizon”, the disaster drama based on the April 2010 oil-rig explosion. The two also worked together as star and director, respectively, on 2013's action drama “Lone Survivor”.

Source: Cinemablend