Kathryn Bigelow‘s Aurora is reportedly no longer in development at Netflix, and a recent report in the New York Times claimed that Bigelow has left the project.
The New York Times reports that Netflix secretly wants to move away from making “auteur” films and focus more on how audiences perceive their films. As a result, the report noted that Aurora was officially no longer in production, and even revealed that Bigelow had actually left the project “several months ago.”
Bigelow made his feature film directorial debut in 1981 with The Loveless. In addition to 2008’s Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker, she has also starred in 1987’s Near Dark, 1991’s Point Break, 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty, and most recently 2017’s Detroit. He has directed feature films such as. She also served as an executive producer on 2019’s Triple Frontier, which was released on Netflix.
Aurora will be in development starting in 2022
In March 2022, Bigelow announced that his next project would be an adaptation of David Koepp’s Aurora, to be released in June 2022. Cope has also written the screenplay for the film, which “follows a group of characters as they deal with the collapse of social order and, according to a 2022 report, a devastating global power crisis. Tweet Posted by Netflix’s official account.
Cope has previously worked on “Jurassic Park” in 1993, “Mission: Impossible” in 1996, “Spider-Man” in 2002, “War of the Worlds” in 2005, and “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull” in 2008. He has written screenplays for films such as ‘Kingdom’.
An official release date for “Aurora” has not yet been announced by Netflix.