The first woman to win the Academy Award for best director, Kathryn Bigelow, has signed on to direct her next film at Netflix. The streamer confirmed the project during its upfront presentation to advertisers on Wednesday afternoon in New York. No title or plot details were revealed.
The project marks Bigelow’s first feature since the 2017 police brutality period film Detroit, which was produced and distributed by Annapurna Pictures.
Though that feature received positive reviews, it failed to capture the awards and commercial success of the director’s previous two works: the controversial 2012 CIA manhunt thriller Zero Dark Thirty and the acclaimed 2009 Iraq war feature The Hurt Locker, which won six categories at the 2010 Academy Awards including best picture. It was for Hurt Locker that Bigelow became the first woman ever to win the Oscar for best director.
Along with the new Bigelow feature, Netflix’s film announcements at its upfront presentation also included the confirmation of a Happy Gilmore sequel with Adam Sandler returning to star, as well as an adaptation of Ruth Ware’s suspense novel The Woman in Cabin 10 starring Keira Knightley
via: Variety
