Netflix Wants Kathryn Bigelow’s Next Movie ASAP

Martin Scorsese. Aaron Sorkin. Alfonso Cuarón. Greta Gerwig. Regardless that it’s been formally an enormous film studio for a comparatively quick time, Netflix has managed to provide a shocking quantity of unique content material from a number of the greatest administrators of our time. They usually need extra. In an interview with Collider, Netflix’s Head of Movie Scott Stuber revealed that one of many acclaimed filmmakers that they need to add to their slate of unique motion pictures is Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Darkish Thirty).

Throughout the interview, Stuber advised Collider’s Editor-in-Chief Steve Weintraub that not solely are they making an attempt to amass Bigelow’s new film, however additionally they need her to work with them on extra initiatives. From Stuber’s enthusiasm to work with Bigelow, it sounds just like the director’s e-mail inbox could also be flooded with Netflix messages. He mentioned:

“We’re actually pushing to get Kathryn Bigelow’s subsequent film and dealing along with her on a few issues. She’s one of many greats, and all of us want one other Kathryn Bigelow film. We want it so badly. So we’re making an attempt. We have a number of pots on the range for her as a result of she’s considered one of my… I idolize her, and she or he’s one of many coolest, biggest artists there may be, so it will be a dream come true to have the ability to make a film along with her.”

Did not Bigelow Already Have a Film In Growth With Netflix?

Final 12 months, it was introduced that Bigelow was hooked up to direct Aurora, a thriller film primarily based on a best-selling novel by well-known Hollywood screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Not possible). The post-apocalyptic story follows a girl who tries to guard her household after a photo voltaic storm shuts down the Earth’s energy grids. Netflix was additionally cited because the manufacturing firm, however to date the streaming platform hasn’t formally introduced the film.

No matter Bigelow’s subsequent film is, it should definitely attract big audiences, because the filmmaker hasn’t directed a characteristic movie since 2017’s Detroit. Bigelow’s potential to combine severe real-world points with thriller tales makes her motion pictures as compelling as they arrive. In 2010, her edge-of-your-seat warfare thriller The Harm Locker swept six Academy Awards and made Bigelow the primary feminine director to ever win the prize for Greatest Director. Since then, she has change into probably the most revered filmmakers in Hollywood.

Netflix’s newest movie by a high-profile director is The Killer, directed by David Fincher. You possibly can try the trailer beneath. Bigelow’s The Harm Locker is presently out there to stream on Max.

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