Six years have passed since 2017’s Detroit, but Oscar-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has begun filming her new project, Smuggler. Cinematographer Arseni Khachaturan shared a photo of a clapperboard with Bigelow’s name as the director on his Instagram stories.
Who is Involved in Kathryn Bigelow’s New Project?
It is unknown if Smuggler is a movie, TV series, or advertisement. Bigelow is directing the project, and Khachaturan is the director of photography.
Bigelow’s career spans over 40 years, dating back to her first directed short, The Set Up, in 1978. After helming The Loveless, Near Dark, and Blue Steel, Bigelow’s breakout hit was 1991’s Point Break starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.
Bigelow has only directed three films since 2008: The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, and Detroit. For The Hurt Locker, a war thriller about an American bomb disposal team in the Iraq War, Bigelow became the first woman to win Best Director at the Oscars. In total, The Hurt Locker won six Oscars, including Best Picture.
For her work on Zero Dark Thirty, the dramatization of the hunt for Osama bin Laden post-9/11, Bigelow received a nomination for Best Picture alongside Mark Boal and Megan Ellison. Detroit, Bigelow’s next film about Detroit’s 1967 12th Street Riot, received mixed reviews and only grossed $26 million worldwide against a $34 million budget.
Khachaturan is best known for his work as the cinematographer on Beginning and Bones and All. Khachaturan recently worked as the director of photography on HBO’s The Idol.
