http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2033466,00.html
Bigelow returns for The Hurt Locker
Staff and agencies
Wednesday March 14, 2007
Kathryn Bigelow is to direct her first film since the flop drama K-19: The Widowmaker in 2002, an Iraq-set feature starring Colin Farrell, Charlize Theron, Ralph Fiennes and Willem Dafoe.
The Hurt Locker will see the A-list cast as members of an elite bomb disposal unit who, according to the synopsis, are "forced to play a dangerous game of cat and mouse in the chaos of war" in a city where "everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb".
Point Break director Bigelow is one of the best-known female film-makers in Hollywood, but came in for criticism following the release of K19, which fared poorly at the box office and with reviewers. It is particularly memorable for Harrison Ford's wonky accent as the captain of Russia's doomed first nuclear submarine.
Since then Bigelow seems to have been largely off the Hollywood radar, bar directing an episode of the short-lived TV series Karen Sisco, about the US marshall created by writer Elmore Leonard and made famous by Jennifer Lopez in the film Out of Sight.
The Hurt Locker's script has been written by Crash director Paul Haggis and Mark Boal, co-writer of the recent Iraq drama In The Valley Of Elah. That film also stars Theron. Farrell and Fiennes are also set to reunite: they are currently filming the Euro-hitmen comedy drama In Bruges in, erm, Belgium.
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