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After Kathryn Bigelow scored an Oscar as Best Director for the 2009 film The Hurt Locker, one could be forgiven for assuming that film fans were headed for a Golden Age of Bigelow movies. After all, this visionary had crafted with Locker a feat that even directors considered more adept at the so-called war genre of film would have had difficulty pulling off: A taut movie about the senselessness of war that also pulled double duty as an expert thriller, to boot. Prior to this, Bigelow was best known for 1991’s Point Break, Strange Days and the Harrison Ford dud K-19: The Widowmaker. Hurt Locker revealed a whole new side to the Near Dark director, and she quickly tackled as her next theatrical project Zero Dark Thirty which arrived with much fanfare before quickly being escorted out of the building for harboring too much pretension. You can’t keep a good director down however, and because she is super-talented and has things of substance to add to our movie-going experiences, no one should be surprised that Bigelow is coming back in a big way with a newly announced high profile gig, according to our Wild Palms pals over at The Hollywood Reporter.
Kathryn Bigelow will be joining the ranks of other directors before her that have moseyed over to the green pastures of Netflix. Her new gig will find her directing the thriller Aurora, her first time in the director’s chair since 2017’s Detroit.
Adapted from the upcoming novel of the same name by author and screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park), Aurora focuses on a scary hypothetical of a freak solar storm which forces a shut-down of a majority of the globe’s power grids. The human hook element arrives in the form of a divorced mom who moves heaven and earth to protect and keep safe her teenage kid and her Silicon Valley CEO brother whom she’s estranged from: Angst, anyone?
Koepp will reportedly pen the script from his novel and it looks like he’ll have a slightly bigger budget than, say, Plan 9 From Outer Space: Word ‘round campfire has it that the budget Netflix is allotting for the feel-good disaster flick will ring in right around the $100 million smackers mark.
Still in the development stages, Aurora is very much on our respective radars here at Vents and we’ll keep everyone posted on this upcoming Kathryn Bigelow movie!
