Hurt Locker’s Bigelow sets sights on Taliban

Kathryn Bigelow, the acclaimed action director whose Iraq war film The Hurt Locker is up for two important Golden Globes this Sunday, is apparently setting her sights on the Taliban for her next project.
 
According to the movie website Total Film, Bigelow (above) has signed up to direct a kidnap drama Held by the Taliban, a real-life account based on the experiences of David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban.
 
Rohde and his Afghan fixer and driver were taken captive in Afghanistan in November 2008. He spent seven months and 10 days in captivity, finally escaping on June 19, 2008. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist subsequently wrote up his ordeal in a five-part series for the New York Times.
 
Bigelow's film will be based on his articles. This modus operandi works well for her:  Bigelow's latest film The Hurt Locker was based on the true accounts of a US bomb squad embedded in Iraq.
 
Many people are already tipping The Hurt Locker to take the Oscar for best film. Before that, however, it is up for best drama, best director and best screenplay at this Sunday's Globes. In all three categories, Bigelow's film is up against her ex-husband James Cameron's 3D blockbuster Avatar, as well as Jason Reitman's Up in the Air.

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