The Revenant's Will Poulter has joined John Boyega ("Star Wars: The
Force Awakens"), Ben O'Toole ("Hacksaw Ridge"), and Jack Reynor
("Transformers: Age of Extinction") in the yet untitled Detroit riots
drama that Academy Award winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow will direct from a script written by her frequent
collaborator Mark Boal, whom she worked with on Zero Dark Thirty.
The project marks Bigelow's return to feature filmmaking after Zero Dark
Thirty in 2012, which the director followed with a short in 2014 titled Last
Days.
Based on real life events, the untitled project will be
set against the backdrop of one of the most violent, deadly, and destructive
riots in American history where hundreds lost their lives (mostly civilians)
and well over a thousand were wounded (mostly civilians).
What came to be known as the 12th Street riots was a violent 5-day
confrontation in 1967's Detroit, between local community members (mostly
African-Americans) and the Detroit Police Department, Michigan State Police,
Michigan Nation Guard, and the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions (mostly
White). Bigelow and Boal will try to
dig deep into the systemic racism in the city.
There isn't a distributor yet in place, but Bigelow is aiming to release
the film in 2017, just in time for the 50th anniversary of the riots.
Source - THR
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