Hollywood considers Osama bin Laden movies

Hollywood considers Osama bin Laden movies

Even before the big Osama bin Laden news, Hollywood was prepping films about the Al-Qaeda leader.

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow and her screenwriting collaborator Mark Boal have been meeting with actors for an Osama bin Laden assassination project, tentatively titled Kill Bin Laden, according to the The Hollywood Reporter. The movie is based on a failed Black Ops mission. Joel Edgerton is said to be interested in the lead role. (We were thinking Eric Bana. How about you?)

So how will bin Laden's death impact the project? Variety says the firefight at the Pakistan compound that killed bin Laden will be added. But the filmmakers haven't gone on the record about their plans.

The Los Angeles Times reports that the Boal-Bigelow film wasn't the only bin Laden-related project kicking around Hollywood before Sunday's announcement of his death. Oliver Stone was at one point interested in a project at Paramount called Jawbreaker, based on a book from CIA officer Gary Berntsen about the bin Laden manhunt.

And the upcoming 24 movie, starring Kiefer Sutherland and due out in 2012, could provide a perfect spot for a bin Laden plot element. Fans seemed to have come up with that idea on Sunday night. Shortly after President Obama announced bin Laden had been killed, "Jack Bauer" was a trending topic on Twitter.

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