Kathryn Bigelow's film “Aurora” was supposed to begin filming this year, but the New York Times reported that the director… Projection To exit the project “a few months ago.”
You may ask why? It's about the streaming service's new head of content, Dan Lin, who is now focused on making films “more about the audience, less about the creators.” God damn that. This news comes just one week after David Lynch revealed Netflix unacceptable Pitch for his next movie.
So, after years of financing passion projects from the likes of Scorsese, Coen, Lee, Cuarón, Iñárritu, Campion, Cooper, Soderbergh, and Bong, among many others, the streaming giant has finally decided that it should commit to producing this kind of film. Brainless crap tends to invade the top 10 films weekly. Call it a business decision.
However, Netflix currently still has David Fincher and Noah Baumbach under contract, and they are set to direct a few more films before the agreements expire in a few years. Maybe they will try to buy it? Who do you know? With Lynn now at the helm, a cleanup is in order.
It's been seven years since Bigelow released her last film, 2017's “Detroit.” It turns out that the Oscar-winning director has been preparing to direct Netflix's “Aurora” since 2022, which is when she signed on to direct the film.
Bigelow, 72, is the maker of such critically underrated films as “The Hurt Locker,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Near Dark,” “Point Break” and “Strange Days.” She was one of the most important filmmakers of the early 2000s, directing two Best Picture nominees and winning Best Director for “The Hurt Locker.”
