Bigelow adds more troops to ‘Hurt Locker’

How many Iraq-war related films does this make now? In the trenches, fighting overseas and/or fighting demons back on home turf, I’m seriously losing count of the many projects that are being churned out. Apparently, everyone from doc filmmakers to Hollywood execs have plenty to say about the hot political debate.
    

With filming scheduled to begin next week in Jordan and Kuwait, The Hollywood Reporter reports that Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty are some of the troops to join Kathryn Bigelow’s latest. 

The Hurt Locker is based on a screenplay Bigelow co-wrote with war reporter Mark Boal, this follows the exploits of an elite bomb disposal unit. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb. Renner will play the leader of the team, while Mackie and Geraghty are members of it. Ralph Fiennes and Guy Pearce also have cameos in the film. Fiennes is a mercenary. The film is a Voltage Pictures/First Light/Kingsgate Films production.

Voltage Pictures will handle sales on the film and financed it with Grosvenor Park. I’m not sure where this falls in terms of size, but I imagine that it might be closer to K-19 than The Weight of Water.