Kathryn Bigelow To Adapt David Koepp’s Upcoming ‘Aurora’ for Netflix
Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow is coming back to directing after a five-year hiatus.
The Hollywood Reporter is saying that Bigelow will be directing an adaptation of David Koepp’s second novel, Aurora, which is coming out on June 7. Koepp will also write the script, with Netflix financing and distributing the project. Greg Shapiro and Gavin Polone will be producing. From THR:
Aurora follows the 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 teenager 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 book will translate to the screen, 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.
While the book will not be released for another couple of months, author Stephen King has already described it as a “real page-turner”, while The Queen’s Gambit screenwriter Scott Frank said the following about it:
“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. Aurora is up there with his best: scary, funny, and thought-provoking.”
Koepp’s writing credits include Jurassic Park, the original Mission: Impossible, and the recently-released Kimi, starring Zoë Kravitz and directed by Steven Soderbergh. This is his second-ever novel, after 2019’s Cold Storage.
Bigelow has not directed a movie since 2017’s Detroit, starring John Boyega. She was the first woman to ever win a Best Director Oscar, for her 2009 war movie The Hurt Locker, and is considered one of the great filmmakers of her generation, with credits like Point Break and the magnificent Zero Dark Thirty.
The project would be in the very early stages of development and could have a budget of over $100M. No more details have bene provided.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
