Boal earned an Academy Award for writing The Hurt Locker and then scooped up a nomination a few years later when he re-teamed with Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty.
Boal’s attention to detail and adherence to fact would have to be the saving graces of this controversy-courting project.
The partners-in-war-crime will reunite for a film set during the 1967 riots in Detroit, but you can’t keep Boal away from hot-button geopolitical issues for long.
Today brings the news that for his next trick, Boal will tackle what’s shaping up to be one of the greatest stories in American history.