Could 'Kill Bin Laden' affect the 2012 presidential election?

"The debt-ceiling crisis may still be on the minds of voters when they head to the polls to choose a president 15 months from now. But on Thursday Sony threw a more subtle monkey wrench into the contest when it announced that it would release "Kill Bin Laden," Kathryn Bigelow's movie starring Joel Edgerton about the American efforts to kill the terrorist leader, on Oct. 12, 2012.

Whether purposeful or merely convenient, the choice has the potential to shade what will already be a fraught moment. The film will come out just 25 days before Americans head to the polls to elect a president -- meaning that "Kill Bin Laden," which reunites Bigelow with her "Hurt Locker" screenwriter Mark Boal, will likely still be in both movie theaters and in the cultural conversation when we next choose a leader.

On its face, and no doubt in the formulation of studio marketers, "Bin Laden" is a movie that sits above politics, an ideology-free "thriller" about a dangerous mission undertaken by strong-stomached heroes. But even though we don't yet know the still-gestating film’s level of political explicitness, it's impossible to separate many of the Navy SEAL moments from a real-world storyline. "Kill Bin Laden," which began life as a tale about the 2002 mission in the caves of Tora Bora, now will doubtless get a happy coda with the terrorist leader's assassination in May. That means that the film could overlap with not one but two political periods."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/07/kill-bin-laden-kathryn-bigelow-hurt-locker-barack-obama-election.html

The Hurt Locker was good, it will be interesting to see what she does with this.

the one waving the bloodiest flag.

have roles, who will play what I have no idea. The article did mention that they are back at the re-write. Gary Shandling? Seriously?

less than accurate. I would be surprised if it was accurate.

Bush was quoted as saying he didn't even think about Osama any more.

And will it cover the history of how Osama was once supported by the US?

So it is unlikely truthers will get much out of it.

But it will be interesting to see if the true historical facts are shown, or ignored like so many are wont to do. How could the movie not portray what the bush did and said and how he acted as he sat there in the schoolroom and later just wash his hands of OBL? Bush's actions are why it took years and years before OBL was finally 'smoked' out. I wonder who will play Cheney, too. I sure look forward to the film if it will indeed be factually historical.

The movie is not even about the attacks themselves or the immediate aftermath, it's about going after OBL. She is obviously skipping over the real people behind 9/11 and keeping the myth alive that OBL did it. She must be "in on it", isn't everyone that does not buy into the fantasy?

it to get people to forget about Bin Laden?

The wars in the middle east are winding down, even if the troops are still over there in the same numbers. By the end of the decade, we'll have forgotten about them, like we do with all our wars.