Following much weighing of her options after the triumph of The Hurt Locker, it seems Kathryn Bigelow had settled on her next project being Triple Frontier, about the border zone between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil that’s said to be a hub of drug running and a source of terrorist funding.
However with the hope of getting major stars like Tom Hanks and possibly Johnny Depp for that one, it’s taking time to get all the pieces together, and so Bigelow and Hurt Locker screenwriter Mark Boal are now looking for financing for a low-budget international thriller and hope to film before the fall 2011 start of Triple Frontier.
According to Variety, no script is ready yet, but the plan would be for Boal to pen the script and Kathryn Bigelow to direct. The indie project is timely, tapping into recent news events. The only details to emerge are that the story concerns black ops and is based on a true story that has appeared in printed form. Although what that story is, is currently anyone’s guess!
While this news will lead some to wonder whether Triple Frontier is in trouble, it seems it’s currently more that that film is all ready to go, and so Bigelow and Boal are looking towards something indie and quick (as indeed Hurt Locker was) they can slot in while the scheduling issues are sorted out.