Another film to keep an eye on during Oscar season is director Kathryn Bigelow’s upcoming drama Zero Dark Thirty. The film chornicles the decade long search for Osama Bin Laden. Jessica Chastain plays the lead in the film, a CIA agent who will stop at nothing to find Bin Laden. Also in the cast is Kyle Chandler (Super 8) who seems as though he’s calling the shots. Can Kathryn Bigelow have another success on the level of The Hurt Locker?
Zero Dark Thirty also stars Chris Pratt, Mark Strong, Scott Adkins, Joel Edgerton, and James Gandolfini.
Zero Dark Thirty opens in limited release on December 19th, then expands nationwide on January 11th.
Here’s the synopsis for Zero Dark Thirty:
For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar(R) winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) for the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man.
