‘The Hurt Locker’ Gets a Painfully Sweet Poster

I didn’t know much about ‘The Hurt Locker’ until today.   All I knew was that it’s the new film by Kathryn Bigelow, and that alone was enough to get me totally stoked.   Her last film, ‘K19: The Widowmaker’, was a disappointment, but hearing the woman who brought you ‘Near Dark’, ‘Point Break’, and ‘Strange Days’ is enough to whet anyone’s appetite.

The film is about a bomb squad unit in Iraq and has an awesome cast including Jeremy Renner, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes and David Morse.   Hopefully this will break the streak of disappointing films about the Iraq war.

The poster is cool and innovative.   It’s not just a Photoshop cut-and-paste job of the actors’ heads over a desert or a bombed out city.   I’m sure there’ll be another poster before the film’s release to brag about the cast, but this works just fine.

Source: Hollywood Elsewhere