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Peter Berg: Lone Survivor

The true story of a SEAL Team mission gone horribly wrong is the setting for Director Peter Berg’s new action-packed drama Lone Survivor.

Berg’s film is based on the memoir of the same name penned by Marcus Luttrell, who was a member of a four-man SEAL team ambushed by a much larger force of Taliban fighters during a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Berg spoke about the challenges he faced and the sacrifices both he and his cast made to get Lone Survivor made in a conversation with Director Bart Freundlich (Californication) after the DGA membership screening in New York on November 23, and Director Ben Affleck (Argo) after the DGA membership screening in Los Angeles on November 24.

Berg’s filmography includes the feature films Very Bad Things, The Rundown, Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, Hancock, Kings Ransom, and Battleship; the movies for television Virtuality and Bloodline; the pilot episodes for the television series Wonderland, Friday Night Lights, Prime Suspect, and The Leftovers; and episodes of the television series Chicago Hope, 30 for 30 and Entourage. Berg has been a member of the DGA since 1997.

Pictures & Video

photos by Byron Gamarro (Los Angeles) and Marcie Revens (New York)  - print courtesy of Universal Pictures

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FULL TALK (31:42): Director Peter Berg talks with Ben Affleck about his new film, Lone Suvivor.
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FULL TALK (24:05): Director Peter Berg talks about his new film, Lone Survivor, with Moderator Bart Freundlich in New York.
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HIGHLIGHT: Berg discusses the visual approach he took to the material, and how we went outside his own comfort zone to give the real story a larger than life feeling.
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HIGHLIGHT: Berg explains why he wanted to make Lone Survivor an apolitical war film that focused on the real soldiers who died on the mission.
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HIGHLIGHT: Director Peter Berg describes how closely he kept his story in Lone Survivor to the book and true-life experience of Marcus Luttrell.
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HIGHLIGHT: Berg explains how he challenged himself in creating the sound design for Lone Survivor.
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HIGHLIGHT: Berg reveals his motivations for making this film, and what he hopes audiences take away from the experience.
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HIGHLIGHT: Director Peter Berg discusses how he structured the pivotal battle in Lone Survivor.
Taylor Kitsch, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster and Emile Hirsch as a SEAL team in a scene from Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor.
Peter Berg speaks about the making of Lone Survivor following the DGA membership screening in Los Angeles.
Director Peter Berg speaks about the making of Lone Survivor with Director Ben Affleck (moderator) after the DGA membership screening in Los Angeles .
Director Ben Affleck (moderator) asks the Director Peter Berg a question about the making of Lone Survivor.
Director Peter Berg speaks about the making of Lone Survivor following the DGA membership screening in New York.
Director Peter Berg speaks about the making of Lone Survivor with Director Bart Freundlich (moderator) following the DGA membership screening in New York.
Director Bart Freundlich (moderator) asks Director Peter Berg a question about the making of Lone Survivor.
Director Peter Berg chats with members of the audience following the DGA membership screening of Lone Survivor in New York.

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8/13/2025 - 8/19/2025

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