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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.
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