Kathryn Bigelow’s ZERO DARK THIRTY Official Trailer – In Theaters December 19

For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. ZERO DARK THIRTY reunites the Oscar® winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) for the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man. Check out the first images (via EW) and trailer for the film starring Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler, Édgar Ramírez, Frank Grillo, Mark Duplass and Mark Strong.

In May 2011 Columbia Pictures announced that they had acquired United States distribution rights to the movie. Bigelow and Boal have been developing the project since 2008 and plan to incorporate recent events into the film. The two are producing the project, along with Annapurna Picture’s Megan Ellison, and executive producer, Greg Shapiro.

Kathryn Bigelow won Academy Awards® for directing and producing her most recent feature film, The Hurt Locker, a look at an elite Explosive Ordinance Disposal squad in Iraq. The film starred Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty, and won a total of six Oscars®, including Best Picture. Bigelow’s other films include Near Dark, Point Break, Strange Days, The Weight of Water, and K-19: The Widowmaker.

Mark Boal won the Academy Award® for his original screenplay for The Hurt Locker. He also won an Oscar® for producing the Best Picture winner. As an investigative reporter, he has written for such national publications as Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Brill’s Content, Mother Jones, and Playboy. In 2003, he wrote Death and Dishonor, the true story of a military veteran who goes searching for his missing son, which later became the basis for Paul Haggis’s follow up to Crash, In the Valley of Elah, released by Warner Bros. in 2007. Boal collaborated with Paul Haggis on the script and shares a co-story credit on the film.

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