Mark Wahlberg’s Boston Marathon bombing movie ‘Patriots’ Day’ gets release date

Three and a half years after the deadly Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Mark Wahlberg will be bringing the story to the big screen in Patriots’ Day.

The film has earned an awards friendly release date this winter. CBS Films and Lionsgate will release the movie in New York, Boston and Los Angeles on Dec. 21 before wide release on Jan. 13, 2017, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Directed by Peter Berg, the film has Wahlberg as a Boston Police Department officer who plays a major role in the manhunt to find Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the brothers who planted the bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon.

J.K. Simmons will co-star as Watertown, Massachusetts Police Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese.

Berg previously directed Wahlberg in the war movie Lone Survivor, which also had an awards friendly release and earned good reviews.

Patriots’ Day will be the first of several movies about the Boston Marathon bombing to hit theaters. Jake Gyllenhaal is working on Stronger, which is about survivor Jeff Bauman. Casey Affleck is also developing Boston Strong, Variety reported in 2014.