UPDATE: Mark Boal‘s reps told The Playlist these reports are untrue. They either want this project to stay secret, or we really won’t be seeing Bin Laden in Bigelow’s upcoming film.
Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker director, Kathryn Bigelow, has a number of exciting projects brewing. Aside from her big-budget Triple Frontier, which will star America’s favorite everyman, Tom Hanks, she’s lined up to helm the pilot episode of HBO’s latest drama, The Miraculous Year, and a largely mysterious low-budget political drama that’s rumored to be based on a real Black-Ops event.
Hurt Locker scribe, Mark Boal, will re-team with Bigelow on the film productions, but little is else known about this last project that is currently untitled. Recent reports have slated Triple Frontier’s production for fall of 2011, and it has been rumored that the $10 mil Black-Ops project would be shot in the interim. Variety (via /Film) confirms this, and has unveiled new information about the still untitled Black-Ops drama, which is already seeking distributors. The latest buzz: Bigelow’s Black-Ops project will center on the quest to hunt down Osama Bin Laden.
While this is certainly a potentially explosive possibly exploitative topic, after seeing Bigelow and Boal’s deft and compelling look at the bomb squad soldiers of Iraq, I’d sign on for any and all of the duo’s future collaborations.
How about you? Does this news have you more intrigued by Bigelow and Boal’s mysterious Black-Ops drama?