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Could We See A 'Zero Dark Thirty' Prequel?
When planning films based on the lives of real, living people, those films are understandably altered when their subjects, well, get assassinated for example. Kathryn Bigelow's 'Zero Dark Thirty,' centering on the Navy SEAL team that hunted down and killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, is due in theaters early next year. But prior to bin Laden's death, Bigelow and her writing partner Mark Boal were working on a completely different movie about the al-Qaeda leader. The original film was going to revolve around the failed attempt on bin Laden's life in Tora Bora in 2011. Though they initially scrapped that idea and reworked it into 'Zero Dark Thirty,' that may not be the last we hear of it. Boal even alluded that they could return to that previous script and retool it as a prequel, or at least he didn't seem averse to that idea when someone suggested it during an interview. As of right now, no official moves have been made to put the prequel into production.
I am very much looking forward to 'Zero Dark Thirty.' I think what Bigelow did on 'The Hurt Locker' more than demonstrates her knack for modern military storytelling, and she therefore seems the perfect choice to direct the filmic version of bin Laden's demise. This idea of a prequel is sort of bizarre. What would be the point of doing a movie about almost killing public enemy number one when we'll have already seen the movie about actually killing public enemy number one? Wouldn't that sort of sap all the dramatic tension from the story? That being said, this prequel is at the most prenatal of stages. There is no reason to suspect the studio will move forward with this prequel unless 'Zero Dark Thirty' proves as successful financially as 'The Hurt Locker' was critically.
What do you guys think? Could a prequel work here? Are you even interested in seeing 'Zero Dark Thirty' in the first place?
Source: EW
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Comment by ryan clay on November 26, 2012 at 2:12pm -
@keh006
Ah, ok. I haven't been following this film and my theater is still advertising for Dec 19.
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Comment by keh006 on November 26, 2012 at 2:44am -
Its only getting a limited release in LA/NY for the awards season. It goes wide in January 2013.
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Comment by ryan clay on November 26, 2012 at 12:22am
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"due in theaters early next year"
I'm pretty sure this movie comes out next month.
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Comment by Luke Hero on November 24, 2012 at 5:28am -
A prequel to killing Bin Laden? I mean what will they do in the prequel? Kill his dog?
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Comment by BlackMagic on November 23, 2012 at 11:35pm -
Is this even necessary?
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Comment by Connor D. on November 23, 2012 at 11:12pm -
Normally, I love going to movies like this; the problem is, the story is only a year old and the research material came direct from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.. Maybe I'm paranoid, but it still reeks of political propaganda...
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Comment by here's jonny on November 23, 2012 at 7:21pm
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Yes watching a true navy seals and CIA movie sounds very interesting, but I dont think any one of us even has an understanding of what those guys actually go through or what type of person and what type of ethos it takes to become a navy seal. I say Fuck This Movie, and double donkey Fuck This Prequel news. Some stories, no matter how amazing, are too important to be fed to Hollywood for money and fame. Maybe thirty years from now it could be the next Argo. But for right now, I just think its too damn foolish to even think about.
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Comment by keh006 on November 23, 2012 at 4:36pm
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Early word on this movie is that its quite good. Had no interest in it until I heard them, also Chastain is great in almost anything,
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Comment by The One They Called Chucky on November 23, 2012 at 3:14pm -
Writing error: Tora Bora was 2001, not 2011. A very-easily corrected typo, I suspect...
And, a prequel could work. There have been good prequels (Infernal Affairs 2 being an example of a great one), so the possibility is there. With these 2 Bin Laden scripts (Zero Dark Thirty and the prequel), though, I can't help but escape the feeling one would literally be about justice being served, and one being about the immediate mood after 9/11. Mark Boal seems to think they're two entirely separate stories that're both worth exploring, despite Bin Laden's assassination.
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Comment by CalvinC on November 23, 2012 at 3:06pm -
People really shouldn't give things like this even a slight bit of acknowledgement before the first product is out.
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