He’s built like a lineman, cusses like a longshoreman, dresses as if he ran out of money at Goodwill and can be as hyper as a 10-year-old on a sugar high. He’s also one of the hottest filmmakers working.

Berg, 45, directed what many consider a seminal football film in Friday Night Lights and the pilot of the lauded TV spinoff. After The Kingdom, which opens Friday, he directs Hancock, the mega-budgeted superhero film starring Will Smith and Charlize Theron. He’s attached to four films after that.

“You look at this guy, headphones on, listening to Christina Aguilera, and you think he’s wandered in off the street,” Garner says. “But then he starts shooting, and you realize why people want to work with him, why his movies are connecting.”

Source: USA Today