Credit: Jakarta Globe:
Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow, center, stands on the set during shooting for her upcoming film about Osama bin Laden in Chandigarh, India, March 1, 2012. Bigelow and cast are in India shooting at various locations over the next few weeks, local media reports. (AP Photo/Anil Dayal)
Washington. A Hollywood studio this week released a trailer for a film dramatizing the hunt for Osama bin Laden, but the film’s screenwriter said the trailer was not meant to boost the campaign of President Barack Obama, who ordered the May 2011 commando raid in which bin Laden was killed.
Earlier this year, US Representative Peter King, the Republican who chairs the House committee on Homeland Security, said the filmmakers had “set out to tell a blockbuster, election year story about one of the most classified operations in American history.”
King expressed concern about the involvement of a “Democratic lobbying firm” in “brokering” access for the filmmakers to top officials.
But screenwriter Mark Boal said the film is a non-political account of the actions of the undercover operatives who hunted down bin Laden and eventually killed him. Obama is not even a character in the movie, he said.
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