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OSCAR-WINNING director Kathryn Bigelow was already working on action thriller tentatively titled Kill Bin Laden when the news came that US forces had killed the Al Qaeda leader in a compound in Pakistan on Sunday.
Bigelow, the 2009 Best Picture winner (for her Iraq war-based movie The Hurt Locker) has been meeting with actors for an Osama bin Laden assassination film based on a failed Black Ops mission by the US military to capture the Al Qaeda leader.
But now that bin Laden has been killed, what happens to the Kill bin Laden project?
The real-world development could impact the project in several possible ways: The movie could stay more or less the same, gaining momentum as Sunday's events give its subject matter added weight, context and timeliness.
Or perhaps the project will do a 180-degree turn, with a new story line and focus.
Joel Edgerton is one of the actors in contention to star in the project, and sources say he is likely to attach himself now that his association with Universal studio's Snow White and the Huntsman seems to have waned.
The next few weeks will likely see a ton of new bin Laden projects, especially as the details of the mission to kill him are further expanded.
