Mark Wahlberg Is Working on a Boston Marathon Bombing Movie

Native Bostonian Mark Wahlberg is working on a movie about the Boston Marathon bombing and the days-long hunt to find the bombers.

EW reports that Wahlberg will be producing Patriots’ Day, which will focus on the manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. There’s already a script, based on the account of what happened from the Boston Police Commissioner.

In a press release, the head of CBS Films said, “There is nothing more compelling than a real story populated by real heroes. The team that we have assembled for this project is determined to give audiences a very personal look at what occurred during the days when the eyes of the world were on the city of Boston and how a group of contemporary patriots faced this crisis.”

[h/t Vulture]
[image via Helga Esteb/Shutterstock]

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