Director Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraqi drama film, The Hurt Locker, now has a cast. Actors Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty will be toplining with Ralph Fiennes and Guy Pierce both making a cameo appearance in this movie. The Hurt Locker is written by Mark Boal and is inspired by true events of recently declassified information. The story revolves around following an elite Army Explosive Ordinance Disposal team in present-day Baghdad that fights an onslaught of bombs and snipers. Renner will be the leader of the team with Mackie and Geraghty members, Fiennes will be a mercenary and Pearce another member. Filming is scheduled to begin next week and is a Voltage Picture/First Light/Kingsgate Films production. Voltage Pictures will be handling sales and is financed with Grosvenor Park. Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicholas Chartier and Greg Shapiro are producing. Boal is a journalist who was previously a writer-at-large at Playboy and was embedded with a bomb squad several years ago. He extrapolated his experiences into a fictional story grounded on real events. Boal said this from Jordan, “The idea is that it’s the first movie about the Iraq War that purports to show the experiences of the soldiers, we want to show the kinds of things that soldiers go through that you can’t see on CNN and I don’t mean that in a censorship-conspiracy way. I just mean the news doesn’t actually put photographers in with units that are this elite.” He also said the idea of doing a topical movie is one factor that lead him into the movie business and discusses a bit about how the history of filming war movies and his enthusiasm for this project. Renner, who recently starred in Fox’s 28 Weeks Later and will be seen opposite Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James. He is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Nelson Felker Toczek Davis. Mackie who recently wrapped shooting Kimberly Peirce’s Iraq war drama Stop Loss is repped by Endeavor, Inspire Entertainment and Loeb & Loeb. Geraghty appeared with Mackie in We Are Marshall and has been seen in films Jarhead and Bobby and is repped by Endeavor and Roklin Management. Fiennes who has worked with Kathryn Bigelow in Strange Days is repped by CAA, Dalzell & Beresford (UK) and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols and Adler. Pierce is repped by CAA, Shanahan Management (Oz) and attorney David Webber. Thanks Hollywood Reporter
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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