Rumor: Kathryn Bigelow Sets Bowe Bergdahl Film As Next Project
By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2015 10:30 am EST
In a column, at Deadline Mike Fleming says “I heard rumors Bigelow was dropping out of Paramount’s Triple Frontier,” which led to near-confirmation that, yes, Bigelow “has pushed [Triple Frontier] to the side.”
Without Triple Frontier to work on, Bigelow is instead actively developing a film based on Boal’s script for a Bowe Bergdahl movie as her next project. Megan Ellison is financing development at this point.
This particular project was first reported last summer, and at that point we didn’t know quite where it fell on Bigelow’s priority list. But there was word that it was a story that she and Boal had been tracking for quite a while.
Bigelow also has another developing project, The True American, also backed by Megan Ellison, about a Bangladeshi immigrant wounded by an American man seeking revenge for 9/11, and the chain of events that unfolded when the victim went to meet his attacker. A press release last year announced this film with Tom Hardy in one lead role. But if Deadline is correct, the Bowe Bergdahl film is now next.
