Kathryn Bigelow Teams With David Koepp, Netflix for Thriller ‘Aurora’ (Exclusive)
Critic's Notebook: How Post-9/11 Hollywood Has Mirrored Our Anxieties -- and Redefined Its Love of Disasterfollows that events of a solar storm that knocks out most of humanity’s power grids and focuses on the personal story of a divorced mother who must now do everything she can to protect her teenaged and her estranged brother, a wealthy Silicon Valley CEO who has built a luxurious bunker in the desert for just such a disaster.
It is unclear how the translation from book-to-screen will be, but insiders describe the story as following characters who are coping with the collapse of the social order, set against a catastrophic worldwide power crisis. The book is due out from HarperCollins June 7 and has blurbs from author Stephen King, who calls is a “real page-turner,” and screenwriter Scott Frank, the creator, who enthuses, “There’s a reason David Koepp is the most successful screenwriter of all time. It’s because he’s one of the greatest storytellers of all time.The deal came together over the weekend, according to sources, and also features a progress to production timeline, which could make this Bigelow’s next movie.
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