Mark Boal certainly has experience with quick turnarounds, as a decade ago, he and director Kathryn Bigelow were working on a movie about the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001, which was among the early attempts to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden post-9/11.
While it’s possible that both Netflix and MGM’s respective GameStop projects could see the light of day, the former streaming platform is apparently looking to be the first one to cross the finish line.
Boal’s other notable credits include Detroit and Triple Frontier.
However, once it was announced in May 2011 that bin Laden was killed, they scrapped that project and started a new one from scratch, which became the Oscar-nominated Zero Dark Thirty.