The Mosquito Bowl Reaches Netflix on November 25: Peter Berg Films the True WWII Marines Football Story
War drama The Mosquito Bowl opened in limited U.S. theaters on October 30 and arrives on Netflix on November 25. Directed by Peter Berg, the film stars Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson and Tom Francis, and adapts Buzz Bissinger's 2022 nonfiction book The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II.
The story is drawn from real history: after Pearl Harbor, a generation of college football stars joined the U.S. Marine Corps. In November 1944, on a rough field on Guadalcanal nicknamed for its mosquitoes, players from the 4th and 29th Marine regiments met in a football game remembered as the Mosquito Bowl.
Fifteen of the men who played in that game were later killed on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The film follows the players from the field to the battlefield, and its global Netflix release brings the story to a mass audience as a feature drama for the first time.
(Source: Netflix)
Source: Netflix
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Photo: 美式橄榄球场（资料图，杨百翰大学 LaVell Edwards Stadium），Ken Lund 摄，Wikimedia Commons / American football stadium (file photo, LaVell Edwards Stadium at BYU), by Ken Lund, Wikimedia Commons
