How TK got cast in “Savages”

“As for Battleship and the test that Berg’s Friday Night Lights discovery Taylor Kitsch faces this year leading that film, John Carter and Savages, Berg thinks that like Kitsch’s Friday Night Lights character Tim Riggins, he’ll find a way to score. “He’s for real, a young Bruce Willis, a good looking athletic guy who is smart, sarcastic, self deprecating, and willing to fuck things up five times and get it right on the sixth,” Berg said. “He has the ability to move from humor to heroic behavior. The first person who saw Battleship footage was Oliver Stone, because he was thinking of casting Taylor in Savages. Now, if I had to make a list of 10 guys who’d see this film first, I wouldn’t imagine Oliver being on it. He watched half an hour, and left with a quiet smile. The next day he cast Taylor in Savages.” Berg plans for Kitsch to play one of the four roles in Lone Survivor, an adaptation of the book by Marcus Luttrell that Berg will make his next film at Universal. The film tells the harrowing story of how he and his Navy SEAL team members fought to stay alive after being ambushed in Afghanistan in 2005 by Taliban forces during a covert mission in the Hindu Kush mountain region, where the team went to kill a terrorist leader.”

More from Peter Berg here.

Japanese trailers for TK films

The “John Carter” trailer has more detail than the US version.

The “Battleship” trailer is similar, but there’s also a great interview with Peter Berg on the site.

Thanks Nick for the submission!

TK joins “Battleship” castmates in making calls to US sailors

Over the next several days a number of sports and Hollywood stars have offered to place calls to a handful of these deployed Sailors to wish them Happy Holidays and to say thank you for their service. 

We intend to share as many of these calls with you as possible as a way of highlighting our Sailors sacrifice and as way of thanking these busy public figures for taking the time to remember our deployed Sailors and their families.

Actors Brooklyn Decker and Taylor Kitsch, from the upcoming feature film “Battleship,” made holiday calls to USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 . The actors thanked Sailors for their service and wished them Happy Holidays.

Story here.

TK and John Carter on Huffington Post

Small article here. 

Is Taylor’s last name really RosenBaum? It says so on his wikipedia.

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It seems wikipedia USED to have this info and now it has been corrected [as of 11/1/11]. Thanks to those who messaged with the heads up. -FYTK

FNL mention in New York Times

Sunday felt like a final finale for “Friday Night Lights,” which wrapped up production a year ago but was nominated for the first time in the best drama category. The night before the awards show, members of the show’s production met up at a restaurant in Hollywood — Dillon’s, like the name of the Texas town where “Friday Night Lights” is set — for what Mr. Chandler called a casual get-together. They took over half the bar, he said, and “said thank you one more time.”

“Just to have the show acknowledged in its final season feels really perfect,” said Mr. Chandler’s TV wife, Connie Britton, indirectly noting the prior seasons when the show was snubbed by Emmy voters.

Thanks Nick for the find. :)

(Source: The New York Times)