Hunting bin Laden and history in ‘Zero Dark 30’

By Jake Coyle

Published December 11, 2012 5:32pm ET

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Hunting bin Laden and history in ‘Zero Dark 30’ — Mark Boal, left, screenwriter and co-producer of the film "Zero Dark Thirty," and the film's director and co-producer Kathryn Bigelow pose together for a portrait at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, in Beverly Hills, Calif. âZero Dark Thirty,â which introduces itself as âbased on first-hand accounts of actual events,â is new kind of timely fusing of filmmaking and journalism, what Bigelow calls âan imagistic version of living history.â (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) | Chris Pizzello

NEW YORK (AP) — Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal were knee-deep in preparing the follow-up to their Oscar-winning “The Hurt Locker,” a film that would chronicle the manhunt for Osama bin Laden, his escape in Tora Bora and the vanishing trail of the world’s most wanted man.

“Then history changed,” says Bigelow.

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