Bigelow to Direct Thriller "Aurora" for Netflix
Mar 31, 2022 22:21:53 GMT
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Kathryn Bigelow Teams With David Koepp, Netflix for Thriller ‘Aurora’ (Exclusive)
Kathryn Bigelow is heading to Netflix.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker, who hasn’t made a movie since 2017’s race drama, Detroit, has set up her latest feature project, titled Aurora, at the streamer.
The project adapts the upcoming book by David Koepp, the veteran screenwriter who counts Jurassic Park, the first Mission: Impossible movie, and Spider-Man amongst his numerous credits. Koepp will write the screenplay for the project.
Producing are Bigelow’s longtime producing partner Greg Shapiro and Gavin Polone, whose long history with Koepp includes producing the writer and sometimes director’s movies such as Stir of Echoes and Secret Window.
Aurora follows that events of a solar storm that knocks out most of humanity’s power grids and focuses on the personal story of a divorced mother who must now do everything she can to protect her teenaged and her estranged brother, a wealthy Silicon Valley CEO who has built a luxurious bunker in the desert for just such a disaster.
It is unclear how the translation from book-to-screen will be, but insiders describe the story as following characters who are coping with the collapse of the social order, set against a catastrophic worldwide power crisis.
The book is due out from HarperCollins June 7 and has blurbs from author Stephen King, who calls is a “real page-turner,” and screenwriter Scott Frank, the creator The Queen’s Gambit, who enthuses, “There’s a reason David Koepp is the most successful screenwriter of all time. It’s because he’s one of the greatest storytellers of all time. Aurora is up there with his best: scary, funny, and thought provoking.”
The Oscar-winning filmmaker, who hasn’t made a movie since 2017’s race drama, Detroit, has set up her latest feature project, titled Aurora, at the streamer.
The project adapts the upcoming book by David Koepp, the veteran screenwriter who counts Jurassic Park, the first Mission: Impossible movie, and Spider-Man amongst his numerous credits. Koepp will write the screenplay for the project.
Producing are Bigelow’s longtime producing partner Greg Shapiro and Gavin Polone, whose long history with Koepp includes producing the writer and sometimes director’s movies such as Stir of Echoes and Secret Window.
Aurora follows that events of a solar storm that knocks out most of humanity’s power grids and focuses on the personal story of a divorced mother who must now do everything she can to protect her teenaged and her estranged brother, a wealthy Silicon Valley CEO who has built a luxurious bunker in the desert for just such a disaster.
It is unclear how the translation from book-to-screen will be, but insiders describe the story as following characters who are coping with the collapse of the social order, set against a catastrophic worldwide power crisis.
The book is due out from HarperCollins June 7 and has blurbs from author Stephen King, who calls is a “real page-turner,” and screenwriter Scott Frank, the creator The Queen’s Gambit, who enthuses, “There’s a reason David Koepp is the most successful screenwriter of all time. It’s because he’s one of the greatest storytellers of all time. Aurora is up there with his best: scary, funny, and thought provoking.”
