{"id":595150,"date":"2026-09-09T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595150\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:36:08","slug":"the-jocks-join-the-marines-in-first-teaser-for-the-mosquito-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595150\/","title":{"rendered":"The jocks join the marines in first teaser for The Mosquito Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/the-tillman-story-1798165737\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Tillman<\/a>, there were the boys of The Mosquito Bowl. Okay, those stories probably don\u2019t have that much in common outside of the fact that sometimes football players join the military. This was true at least as far back as World War II, when college football stars\u2014played in a new Netflix movie by Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd, Ray Nicholson, Tom Francis\u2014enlisted in the war against fascism. The new teaser for Netflix\u2019s movie doesn\u2019t get much into the specifics of what\u2019s going on other than the fraternal connection between the men both on the football field and the battlefield.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An official logline for the movie reads:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, four of America\u2019s top College Football stars set their fame aside to enlist in the Marines. As they prepare for the brutal invasion of Okinawa, they\u2019ll play in a legendary game featuring some of the greatest players in history \u2013 a game that, for many, will be the last they ever play.<\/p>\n<p>The Mosquito Bowl also stars Brent Comer, Dominic Bogart, and Pat McAfee. It opens in theaters on October 30\u2014indicating that Netflix may have some awards aspirations for the project\u2014before coming to Netflix on November 25. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before there was Pat Tillman, there were the boys of The Mosquito Bowl. Okay, those stories probably don\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-595150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}