The Mosquito Bowl turns a real 1944 football game into Peter Berg’s next war film
On Christmas Eve 1944, 65 Marines played football on Guadalcanal while preparing for a campaign that would take them to Okinawa. Fifteen of those players would be killed there months later. Peter Berg’s The Mosquito Bowl is built around the uncomfortable distance between those two events, and Netflix has now released its first proper look at the film.