![]() Bruckheimer Productions is working with ABC on a TV pilot about the Seal’s family life and missions.īut while some might have considered the burst of publicity that swirled around that death a way to boost the prospects for an action movie about Navy SEALs who fight real world terrorists (but not Bin Laden), the Bandito brothers were put off. Sony won the bidding for a movie about the SEALs who got bin Laden from Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal. Universal is developing Lone Survivor, about a SEAL who fights against terrible odds in the mountains of Afghanistan. In short order, a number of projects were snapped up in the wake of the death of the Al Qaeda leader. ![]() Then in early May, a month before they were to unveil their project, Osama Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan, taken out by a team of U.S. I think some eyes got opened up over the last year about our statement.”Ī year ago, with the film completed for under $20 million, the Bandito Brothers were ready to show it to distributors, looking for the right one to pick it up for distribution. “We said to Hollywood in the beginning we don’t have stars,” says Waugh. ![]() His pitch to Hollywood at the time fell flat, but it is now the basis of how Relativity Media is marketing the film. “That’s why we ended up funding it ourselves and finding private equity and why we really made a truly independent film with this.” “Nobody from Hollywood wanted us to make it,” says Waugh. VIDEO: Second Trailer for Navy SEAL Movie ‘Act of Valor’ Hits the Web ![]()
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