Former Nickelodeon star Alex Wolff will play Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. Elsewhere, Michelle Monaghan will feature as Wahlberg’s significant other, while John Goodman, J.K. Simmons, Jimmy O. Yang, Vince Curatola and James Colby round out the starry ensemble.
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Wolff, whose mother is “Thirtysomething” actress Polly Draper, has appeared on HBO’s “In Treatment” and on Nickelodeon’s “The Naked Brothers Band“.
There’s a role for Mark Wahlberg in Berg’s drama, too, as he will headline as Sgt. Tommy Saunders, a decorated officer in blue who is described as a “composite Boston Police Department officer who leads the manhunt for the chief suspects”. Three people were killed and more than 260 were left injured in the explosions.
Filming began in MA last week (ends03Apr16).
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His lawyers appealed in January, urging the court to reverse the conviction. Dzhokhar planned the bombing with his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, both brothers were reportedly self-radicalized and built their pressure-cooker bombs in secret, before planting them on the scene of the Boston Marathon. He was killed in an exchange with law enforcement four days after the attacks. Wahlberg is starring in the movie, playing Boston police officer Danny Keeler. How it’s not how you fall down, it’s how you get back up’. ‘We won’t accept anything less’.
