‘Friday Night Lights’ Creator Peter Berg Returned to the Gridiron for ‘Boys in Blue’—And Then Tragedy Struck

Peter Berg is a veteran of showcasing high school football onscreen, but Friday Night Lights could never have prepared him for his new docuseries, Boys in Blue. Over his 25 years as a filmmaker, Berg has done a little bit of everything, from blowing up battleships in Battleship to helping launch the big-screen career of Dwayne Johnson. And still, he’s best known for two things: adapting his cousin Buzz Bissinger’s popular nonfiction book Friday Night Lights into a well-received movie and then a beloved TV series, and turning real-life tragedies into Mark Wahlberg films (Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon, and Patriots… Read Full Article