A while back, Kathryn Bigelow looked like she was going to become the first woman to break into the big boys club of action directors,however after a couple of her movies (Strange Days, K-19) did only lukewarm business at the box office, she was pretty much cast out into the wilderness. Despite her stirling work on Near Dark, Blue Steel and Point Break, it seemed Hollywood wasn’t ready to trust a woman on an action flick again.
However now that her independent project, The Hurt Locker, has won wide acclaim, it looks like she’s once more seen as someone the money men will take a shot on, and thank goodness, as there’s been more than a whiff of sexism to her career struggles.
It ‘s now been announced that she’s working with Hurt Locker writer Mark Boal on an action-adventure thriller called Triple Frontier. It looks like this project might again have an indie sensibility, so it’s unlikely to be a return to her major Hollywood movies (the $100 million K-19 is still the most expensive more ever directed by a woman). Triple Frontier will be set in the notorious border zone between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil where the Igazu and Parana rivers converge. As it’s a difficult area to monitor, it’s become a haven for organized crime.
There’s no news yet on when the film might go into production.