Osama bin Laden movie project already in works

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/02/us-binladen-film-idUSTRE7415ES20110502

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Somebody get Kathryn Bigelow a rewrite!

Just as the Oscar-winning director of Iraq war movie "The Hurt Locker" and her screenwriting collaborator Mark Boal have been meeting with actors for an Osama Bin Laden assassination project, came the news on Sunday that U.S. forces had killed the al Qaeda leader in a Pakistani compound.

How this will impact the project is yet to be seen. Bigelow and Boal, the director and writer of the 2009 best picture winner "The Hurt Locker", were already working on an action thriller tentatively titled "Kill Bin Laden". The movie is to be based on a failed Black Ops mission by the US military to capture the Al-Qaida leader.

Michael Fassbender was one of the actors in contention to star, but he is no longer in the running. Joel Edgerton is the latest to be circling the project, and sources say he is likely to attach himself now that his association with Universal studio's "Snow White and the Huntsman" seems to have waned.