Peter Berg will direct his Lone Survivor star Mark Wahlberg once again in The Six Billion Dollar Man, a film version of the 1970s TV show "The Six Million Dollar Man," for The Weinstein Co.'s Dimension Films label. Ain't inflation a bitch?
Wahlberg will star as former astronaut Steve Austin, who is badly damaged in an experimental plane crash but is saved by doctors who fit him with bionic replacements for both legs, his right arm and left eye. With his new bionic abilities he becomes a powerful government agent for the Office of Scientific Intelligence.
The Six Billion Dollar Man will begin production sometime next year for a 2016 release. Bob Weinstein will produce along with Berg and his producing partner Sarah Aubrey, Wahlberg's production company Closest to the Hole Productions and Wahlberg's producing partner Stephen Levinson. Universal, which got a piece of the $150-million worldwide gross of Lone Survivor, is set to distribute.
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