Aurorathe next film from Kathryn Bigelow, the great director behind Minesweepers And Zero Dark Thirty, will not see the light of day on Netflix.
Right now, the platform is doing its spring cleaning. Dan Lin, new director of the film section of the streaming platform, has decided to change the service approach at the production level. The new boss of Netflix wants to make fewer films, spending less money. And obviously, that has its consequences.
After having scoured some of its employees and restructured its teams, Netflix tackled the most urgent subjects: current productions. To reduce expenses you have to take out the project guillotine, and it never does any favors, as evidenced by this serial killer film with Robert Pattinson. With this new management, it has apparently not become more lenient. Indeed, the next feature film by Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow, Aurorawould have been canceled by the platform.
You un-cancel or I’ll shoot
Bigelow and Netflix, it’s over
It is via an article from New York Times on internal changes at Netflix that the information was relayed. And if the cancellation from Aurora just fell, the director for her part would have left the project several months ago already. Still according to the Times, the cancellation would be due to the new direction that Netflix is taking with regard to its productions. For the filmmaker, however, there is no way, for the moment, of knowing the reasons for her departure. The platform now seeks to attract as many people as possible, and less to finance the projects of major directors.
The film was to be an adaptation of the novel of the same name by David Koepp. The latter is particularly known for his work as a screenwriter, with cult films like the first two Jurassic Park And War of the Worlds. The film was to tell the story of Aubrey, a recently divorced mother left to take charge of her neighborhood after a solar storm in Aurora, in the state of Illinois, while protecting his son. On the other side of the country, Aubrey’s brother Thom plans to escape global catastrophe by hiding deep in his bunker in the middle of the desert.
Seven years already since his last film…
This was to be the director’s first film since Detroit in 2017, and the The fact that she left the project well before the definitive cancellation by Netflix is not reassuring as to the chances of seeing the film one day made. The days when the red N platform was the home for authors like Scorsese and Fincher seem to be over.
