Detroit (2017)

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Kathryn Bigelow will direct, as well as produce with Mark Boal and Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Matthew Budman an as yet untitled true crime drama from an original screenplay by Mark Boal.

The feature, Oscar winning director Bigelow’s tenth as a director, is her, and her frequent collaborator Boal’s next up. Referred to at the moment as the “Untitled Detroit Project,” it is being financed by Annapurna Pictures, and is set to begin principal photography this summer.

Although details about the Detroit project are not being revealed at this time, it is a crime drama set against the backdrop of Detroit’s devastating riots that took place over five haunting summer days in 1967. Boal has been researching and working on the project, which explores systemic racism in urban Detroit, for more than a year. Although no studio is yet attached, a release date is being targeted for 2017, the 50th anniversary of the riots.

The project marks Boal’s first screenplay centering around domestic conflicts. His “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” both directed by Bigelow, were set in the Middle East.

Bigelow is a two time Oscar winner for producing and directing “The Hurt Locker.” Boal is a two time Oscar winner for producing and writing “The Hurt Locker.” Their previous collaboration, “Zero Dark Thirty,” received five Oscar nominations including best picture and best screenplay.
http://www.thewrap.com/kathryn-bigelow- ... annapurna/

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such timing.

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Interesting that Bigelow has been trying to make a film about racism (first with True American and now this)

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theseeker9175 wrote:Interesting that Bigelow has been trying to make a film about racism (first with True American and now this)
Makes for good Oscar bait tbh.

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I dunno, when your last film is one of the best of the decade, I'd be giving benefit of the doubt.

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Bait has nothing to do with quality.

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Allstar wrote:such timing.
such meme.


anyway. excited.

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Allstar wrote:Bait has nothing to do with quality.
...ok then.

Are you upset that it's being written and directed by white personages?

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I'm thrilled.

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