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Kathryn Bigelow
Some top Hollywood names plan to produce a period-piece film that takes place in Detroit during the 1967 riots.
Director Kathryn Bigelow will direct Mark Boal's script for the currently untitled crime drama. Bigelow directed The Hurt Locker, which Boal wrote and produced. That film won two Academy Awards. In 2012, Boal wrote and produced Zero Dark Thirty, and teamed up with Bigelow.
Deadline Hollywood writes about the Detroit film:
The picture will be set in 1967 in the backdrop of Detroit’s devastating riots that took place over five 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.
Boal tells Deadline Hollywood the story is “a very timely tale that deals with systemic racism in a way I think is relevant to contemporary audiences.”
It is unclear whether the movie will be filmed in Detroit.
