THE KINGDOM -- PETER BERG INTERVIEW

HE KINGDOM September 28, 2007

Genre: Thriller
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper, Jeremy Piven, Jason Bateman, Ali Suliman, Ashraf Barhoum
Directed by: Peter Berg
Screenplay by: Matthew Michael Carnahan
Based on a Story by: Peter Berg & Matthew Michael Carnahan
Produced by: Michael Mann, Scott Stuber
Executive
Producers: Mary Parent, John Cameron, Sarah Aubrey, Steve Saeta




Director Peter Berg, who blisteringly reinterpreted the high-school sports drama with the celebrated Friday Night Lights, producer Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider, The Aviator, Miami Vice), and producer Scott Stuber (You, Me and Dupree, The Break-Up) join Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx in a timely thriller about the explosive clash that happens when Middle East meets West: The Kingdom.

Foxx stars as whip-smart FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury, who has just received the assignment of his career: assemble an elite team (played by Jennifer Garner, Oscar® winner Chris Cooper and Jason Bateman) and go to Riyadh to hunt down and capture the terrorist mastermind behind a deadly attack on Americans working in Saudi Arabia. The feds have only one week to infiltrate and cripple a cell bent on jihad to western society.

No training could prepare Fleury and his team for the disorienting culture shock they face once inside this scorching foreign land—a byzantine maze of profiteering politicians and storefront terrorists. Bound by handlers who refuse to play ball with the U.S., the agents quickly find the local law enforcement more hindrance than help and soon grow uncertain of anybody's allegiance.

But when a sympathetic Saudi police captain helps them navigate Riyadh politics and investigate the true cause of the attack, Fleury finds an unexpected comrade-in-arms. In their lightning fast attempt to crack the case, the partners' search leads them straight to the killers' front door. Now in a fight for their own lives, two teams on opposite sides of the war on terror won't stop until vengeance is found in The Kingdom.

Birth Name
Peter Winkler Berg

Height
6' 1" (1.85 m)

Spouse
Elizabeth Rogers (1993 - 1996)

Trade Mark
Quick/constantly-moving camera.


Trivia
Worked as a dock worker in San Pedro, California prior to getting his "big break"

Attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota

Worked as Domino's delivery boy while at Macalaster.

Peter grew up in Chappaqua, New York and attended a private high school in Watertown, Connecticut.

Cousin of Buzz Bissinger

Appeared in local theater productions while attending college in Minnesota.

Moved to Los Angeles in 1985.

Attended the Guthrie Theater Drama School, Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

He and three others were ambushed and robbed in the Brazilian jungle while doing research for "The Rundown." They were held for 15 minutes and lost cash and a laptop computer. Nobody was injured.

His best friend, and room mate from Macalester College, is his agent, Ari Emanuel, inspiration for Entourage's Ari Gold.

One of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007. A BlackTree Media Production Thank you for watching!

• Category

  Film & Animation

[seze70]

did you even watch the kingdom??...I know you didnt..cuz it does not suck!!

[DvT093]

The Kingdom was a fabulous movie!

[stronald]

you just exposed your IQ....this movie was made for you!

[LowRiderZxXx]

fuck u this movie is awesome!!!!

[requshei]

Ethan Hawke...

[stronald]

The worst movie i saw in my life!!! I have seen a lot. Good movies, bad movies and very bad movies. But there will never be a movie shittier than this one. Trust me.

[raychamp01]

wow thats the actor from aspen extreme. i cant beleive he's an director

[Saudipride100]

crap movie .. thats NOT true =/

[Churchill777]

Yeah, I've lived in Dhahran almost all my life born 1992, few month later move to Saudi. My dad works for Aramco. We all love it there and it truly is very very peaceful everywhere we have gone. Never wanted to live anywhere else in the world than Saudi.