Filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj said he is excited about his next directorial project, which is reportedly a prequel to Zero Dark Thirty and will be based on the bestselling book The Exile by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy about Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.
The film is reportedly titled Abbottabad and it is believed that its story will be about the time terrorist Bin Laden spent in between Tora Bora and his last days in Abbottabad.
“Excited to tackle this new subject but also nervous since it’s my biggest challenge with completely new cultures and languages,” the Kaminey director tweeted.
While Bin Laden will be one of the primary characters, the story, however, will be told from the perspective of Ebrahim, the man who was chosen to host and guard Bin Laden for many years.
Bhardwaj will direct and co-produce the project in association with Junglee Pictures.
If pulled off successfully, this will be the first international story to come out of India. The cast and crew are yet to be finalised.
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the 2012 critically-acclaimed Zero Dark Thirty was based on the decade-long manhunt for bin Laden following the September 11 attacks in the US, leading up the militant’s death on May 2, 2011.
