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  • 12
    Oct
    2012
    11:51am, EDT

    Osama bin Laden manhunt at heart of new movie 'Zero Dark Thirty'

    By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News

    REVIEW: He was the world's most wanted man, and for a decade, he eluded capture, until a brave team of Navy SEALs broke into his expensive Pakistan compound and sent him to whatever judgment awaits mass murderers.

    Osama bin Laden's death on May 2, 2011 is the topic of Kathryn Bigelow's upcoming movie, aptly dubbed "Zero Dark Thirty," for the hour at which the raid took place.


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    Bin Laden himself (played by English actor Ricky Sekhon) is never seen in the film's new trailer, but that's hardly necessary. This isn't a film about him, but about the mission, fraught with danger and uncertainty.

    "If you thought there was some working group coming to the rescue, then I want you to know that you're wrong," a leader grimly tells the team. "This is it. There's nobody else hidden away on some other floor. There is just us, and we are failing."

    It doesn't get better for the SEALs later on, when a source with knowledge of bin Laden tells them, "You will never find him. He is one of the disappeared ones."

    And the trailer just teases the audience with the scene everyone wants to see, the reenactment of the raid itself, showing armed SEALs quietly making their way towards the compound, eerily lit by the glowing green of night-vision glasses.

    Kyle Chandler, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke and Joel Edgerton are among the stars. Bigelow won the best director Oscar for her 2009 film "The Hurt Locker," the first woman to ever win that honor. Screenwriter Mark Boal, who won a writing Oscar for "Hurt Locker," has teamed with Bigelow again on this film.

    "Zero Dark Thirty" hits theaters Dec. 19.

    The new trailer is only available on Apple.com, but we have embedded the earlier teaser trailer for the film above.

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  • 9
    Feb
    2012
    9:26am, EST

    Bin Laden returns as zombie in 'Osombie' movie

    By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News

    Zombie movies and TV shows are popular again, so why not resurrect one of the most infamous terrorists as a member of the undead?

    That's the plot of an independent feature-length film named, of course, "Osombie."

    The film has been shot, and its makers are trying to raise money to finish it off via the fund-raising site Kickstarter. On the site, the film is described as a zombie film "packed with violence, mayhem, guns, blood and discussions about Pokemon."

    The plot just keeps getting better. It focuses on Dusty, a yoga instructor from Colorado whose brother Dusty believes Osama is still alive. Derek ends up being right, as the dead al-Qaeda leader "has returned from his watery grave and is making an army of zombie terrorists."

    "We and a few others are the only thing standing between the people of Afghanistan and a zombie apocalypse," one character says in the (awesome) trailer. The trailer also includes swordfighting, romance, a head being shot off, and lots and lots of hunky guys taking their shirts off to expose some really nice chests. And, of course, the dead bin Laden, complete with white turban and long beard, covered in zombie-style rot.

    "The original script was written prior to bin Laden's death, while he was still missing ... and possibly a zombie," producer Kynan Griffin told msnbc.com. "But the whole thing clicked when he was shot."

    If you don't mind a little gore, you can watch the trailer here. And if you want to help "Osombie" come to a theater near you, you can donate at their Kickstarter page. At press time, the filmmakers had been pledged $10,000, and their goal is $15,000. A pledge of $1,000 or more gets your name on the film's credits, lower pledges get other rewards.

     

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