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While she’s had huge successes with modern military based films (The Hurt Locker, and Zero Dark Thirty), Kathryn Bigelow’s next movie will be an untitled crime thriller set in ’60s Detroit.
Based around the riots which gripped the city in 1967 (known as the 12th Street Riot); beginning with the police raiding an unlicensed bar and meeting far more resistance than anticipated; and saw violence and destruction lasting five days, as racial tensions boiled to breaking point, the film has been in the pipeline for over a year.
The screenplay by Mark Boal (Bigelow’s regular screenwriter) will “explore systemic racism in urban Detroit, set against the backdrop of the devastating riots that took place over five haunting summer days in 1967” according to the press release and, although no studio is yet attached, financiers Annapurna Pictures are hoping for a 2017 release (to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the riots).
Matt Wheeldon – @TheMattWheeldon.
Source: Empire.
