Peter Berg’s been a filmmaker for 25 years. He’s made giant action movies, like Battleship, and brought the riveting Friday Night Lights to both theaters and television. But nothing’s ever hit him as hard as the tragedy that occurred while he was making his new documentary series for Showtime, Boys in Blue. Set in North Minneapolis in the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a police officer, the show follows the North Community High School football team during the 2021–22 season. The series grapples with the ongoing threat of violence and, during production, the de facto star, quarterback Deshaun Hill, was killed. “He was walking out of school, bumped into a kid. The kid pulls out his gun, shot him in the head,” a still-shaken Berg tells Vanity Fair, adding, “It was mind-boggling, it was gut-wrenching, and it really happened. In the fourth episode, we filmed him out on a date with his girlfriend, 30 hours before he was murdered.” More on the series and tragedy today.
Elsewhere in Hollywood, we’ve got a new installment of Rebecca Ford’s Reunited series, in which Oscar contenders Colin Farrell and Emma Thompson get hilariously reacquainted. Richard Lawson asks why all the movies and shows that hate rich people don’t hate rich people even more. We review the evil-toy thriller M3GAN (admit it, you’re curious). And James Marsden says he hasn’t given up hope that he and the rest of the Westworld cast could somehow complete the show despite cancellation.
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