"Zero Dark Thirty" - teaser trailer

Kathryn Bigelow's film chronicling the tracking down and killing of Osama bin Laden has been a hot button project from the get go and chances are the actual film will probably do nothing to temper conversation about what actually happened that night in May 2011 in Abbottabad Pakistan. The first teaser trailer is here though and it's a highly stylized piece of work with much of the copy blacked out ala a classified document.

Regarding any possible political aspect to the film writer Mark Boal emphasizes the movie is primarily about the people who actually hunted bin Laden down and the Navy SEAL team that brought the hard rain. Says Boal: "There’s no political agenda in the film. Full stop. Period... A lot of people are going to be surprised when they see the film. For example, the president is not depicted in the movie. He’s just not in the movie.” Some people will undoubtedly appreciate that, others will not.


"Zero Dark Thirty" is due in theaters December 19th and will be up against some stiff competition from Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" which opens just 5 days earlier.