Hollywood big shots believe Bowe Bergdahl is ready for his close-up.
Two films about the captured US soldier are already being planned — less than three weeks after the Taliban handed over Bergdahl in exchange for the release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed.
Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal — who teamed up for the controversial “Zero Dark Thirty” about the Osama bin Laden raid — are reuniting to tell the story of Bergdahl’s release. The movie will be made through Boal’s production company, Page 1, which is backed by Annapurna Pictures, the company that financed “Zero Dark Thirty.”
The second film will be directed and produced by Todd Field for Fox Searchlight, which acquired the rights to a 2012 Rolling Stone magazine profile on Berghdal, called “America’s Last Prisoner of War.”
On June 13, 28-year-old Bergdahl returned to his home country for the first time in five years amid a firestorm of controversy. Many criticized the Obama administration for releasing five Taliban prisoners in exchange for the Idaho native, while others took issue with searching for a soldier who apparently wandered off his base in Afghanistan willingly.