The Hurt Locker (2008)
The Hurt Locker stars 2009 Independent Spirit Award “best acting” nominees Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie, as well as Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, Brian Geraghty, and Evangeline Lilly.
The script was co-written by Mark Boal (In the Valley of Elah), a journalist who has written for Playboy, The Village Voice and Rolling Stone Magazine, and who also spent time embedded with a bomb squad. Other members of the key filmmaking crew include cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, film editors Chris Innis and Bob Murawski, production designer Karl Júlíusson and costume designer George Little. The score was composed by Academy Award nominated composer Marco Beltrami.
The Hurt Locker was shot entirely on location in the Middle East, over forty-four days from July to September 2007, during the height of the Iraq war surge. Often four or more camera crews filmed simultaneously.
Although the filmmakers scouted locations in Morocco, director Kathryn Bigelow sought greater authenticity and wound up shooting most of the movie in Jordan because of its close proximity to Iraq. Some of the locations were less than three miles from the Iraqi border. All the Iraqi roles in the film were played by displaced Iraqi war refugees living in Jordan, many of them trained actors who had been forced to flee their country.
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