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Kathryn Bigelow And Tom Hardy Sign To Post-9/11 Movie True American

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NewsDavid Crow5/15/2014 at 10:44AM

Director Kathryn Bigelow is set to helm The True American, a movie about a post-9/11 "Arab Slayer," starring Tom Hardy.

Let it not be said that Kathryn Bigelow has shied away from hot button issues following her superbly underrated Zero Dark Thirty.

The Oscar winning director is returning to dealing with the events that affected the course of the last decade with her signing on to direct The True American. Tom Hardy is also set to star in the picture.

Set in the heavy days directly following the September 11, 2001 attacks, The True American is based on a non-fiction book by New York Times journalist Anand Giridharadas that chronicles a self-styled “Arab slayer” or “American terrorist” named Mark Stroman. After 9/11, Stroman took on himself to seek vengeance by murdering immigrants in Texas. He killed two people while a third, Bangladesh Air Force veteran Raisuddin Bhuiyan, survived this random act of violence.

However, the movie intends to go beyond this path of bloodshed into the aftermath of Stroman’s capture and what it means for both Bhuiyan and his American community.

Based on The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, which was published by last week by W.W. Norton & Company, the film will mark Bigelow’s second consecutive collaboration with Annapurna Pictures after Zero Dark Thirty.

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