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Peter Berg’s Film 44 Reups Netflix Deal, Sets ‘Mosquito Bowl’ As First Film Under New Pact Reuniting With Brian Grazer


Peter Berg has reupped his deal at Netflix and set 'The Mosquito Bowl' as his first film under the pact with Brian Grazer producing

The news follows the success of Berg’s #1 limited series, American Primeval, which spent four weeks on the Netflix Global Top 10 TV (English) and racked up 35.1M views. The next project under the partnership, which Berg co-wrote, will direct, and is producing alongside Brian Grazer at Imagine and Alex Gayner, is the feature adaptation of Buzz Bissinger’s instant New York Times bestseller The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II. That show would not only join the ranks of the peak TV boom we saw at that time but would help launch the careers of such rising stars as Taylor Kitsch, Jesse Plemons and Michael B. Jordan.

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