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Kathryn Bigelow to Direct Netflix Thriller ‘Aurora’
Kathryn Bigelow is now filming for Netflix. Photo: Michael Nelson/EPA/dpa
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What a team: Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win a director’s Oscar. Author David Koepp was part of the «Indiana Jones» universe.
Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow (70, “Deadly Command – The Hurt Locker”) wants to film the thriller “Aurora” for Netflix. The streaming service announced the project on Twitter.
It is based on the new novel by David Koepp, who is known as the screenwriter of numerous Hollywood blockbusters, including “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, “Jurassic Park”, “War of the Worlds” and “Mission: Impossible”.
Koepp will also rewrite his own novel as a screenplay, it said. According to Netflix, “Aurora” is set against the backdrop of a global energy catastrophe in which people are struggling to survive.
Bigelow is Hollywood’s woman for hard thrillers and explosive material. In 2010 she won the first directing Oscar for a woman with the war drama “Deadly Command – The Hurt Locker”. In 2012, “Zero Dark Thirty” followed, about the hunt for al-Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden. In her last feature film “Detroit” (2017) she looked at the riots and police brutality against black people in Detroit (Michigan) in July 1967.