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| Michael Bay adaptation of the Hunt for Osama? |
(NewsCore) - As Americans reacted Sunday to the news of Osama bin Laden's death in Pakistan, Hollywood producers and screenwriters were likely scrambling to make adjustments to previously greenlighted films chronicling missions to kill the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks to reflect the breaking news, FOXNews.com reported Monday. Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow had already been preparing for a film with the working title "Kill bin Laden," Deadline reported. Bigelow and her partner Mark Boal reportedly planned the project as a follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Best Picture Academy Award-winning "Hurt Locker." The film, as planned, was to focus on an earlier unsuccessful mission to kill bin Laden as he hid between the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Deadline reported. But in light of President Barack Obama's Sunday night message to Americans announcing the death of the al Qaeda leader, the storyline will likely be changed to reflect the news.
I'm somewhat saddened by the fact that this is going to be a mainstream, Hollywood film. Don't get me wrong, I want to see that, I need someone to condense all this information that has came out in the last 36 hours into a nice 2 hour summary since there is no possible way to read all of it. But what I was really hoping for was a typical, "rushed before we have all the facts, but we don't care anyway," Lifetime Original.
Now I know you're saying, CW, but this story doesn't deal with a woman being battered. Well that's where Lifetime's creative storytelling kicks in and they tell this from the angle of Osama's wives' points of view, all the way up until one of them was used as a human shield in his last moments, to her surviving and ID'ing Osama's corpse and aiding soldiers from the one country she had been taught to hate. Boom, there's your Lifetime angle. Lifetime, you've been killing it lately, the Amanda Knox story, Craigslist Killer, and now the coming Natalie Holloway movie. This needs to happen, and it needs to happen fast.
PS: I'd also settle for a very special episode of Burn Notice on USA, directed by Michael Bay in which cast of the Burn Notice is the field team that hunted down and killed Osama, with all the usual Michael Bay pyrotechnics along the way, and maybe a Transformer or two for good measure.
