We haven’t heard this name in a while.
It’s been five years since Kathryn Bigelow released “Detroit.” The Oscar-winning filmmaker has finally set up her next feature, titled “Aurora”, and it’ll be a Netflix original.
Bigelow’s film is an adaptation of David Koepp’s upcoming novel of the same name, the veteran screenwriter will also write the screenplay for the project.
“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.”
Insiders describe the story as “following characters who are coping with the collapse of the social order, set against a catastrophic worldwide power crisis.” How relevant.
THR is reporting that the film’s budget will be somewhere north of $100 million.
Bigelow is the maverick filmmaker of such great films as “The Hurt Locker,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” Near Dark,” “Point Break,” and the highly underrated “Strange Days.” As mentioned, “Detroit” was her last film and it garnered a mixed reception when it was released back in 2017. I absolutely loved the middle section of that film, but the first and last third of that movie just didn’t work for me.