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14 Sep 2026 1:20 p.m. PST

"The dream team is collaborating once again.

Buzz Bissinger, author of The New York Times bestselling book Friday Night Lights, and its subsequent film's director, Peter Berg, are teaming up to deliver the true story of The Mosquito Bowl, which saw 65 Marines of the 4th and 29th regiments, 6th Marine Division, facing off on the "gridiron" of Guadalcanal before being shipped off to Okinawa.

Based on Bissinger's 2022 book The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II, the film follows four of America's top college football stars, who traded a pigskin for an M1 Garand…"

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