Kathryn Bigelow‘s Aurora is reportedly no longer in development at Netflix, with a recent report from The New York Times noting that Bigelow has left the project.
According to The New York Times’ report, Netflix is quietly moving away from making more “auteur” films and instead hoping to focus more about how audiences perceive their films. As a result, the report mentioned that Aurora was officially no longer in the works and even revealed that Bigelow actually left the project “a few months ago.”
Bigelow made her feature film directorial debut in 1981 with The Loveless. Along with the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker in 2008, she’s directed feature films such as 1987’s Near Dark, 1991’s Point Break, 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty, and, most recently, 2017’s Detroit. She was also an executive producer on 2019’s Triple Frontier, which was distributed through Netflix.
Aurora was in development since 2022
In March 2022, Bigelow announced her next project would be an adaptation of David Koepp’s Aurora, which was published in June 2022. Koepp is also writing the screenplay for the movie, which “follows characters who are coping with the collapse of the social order, set against a catastrophic worldwide power crisis,” according to a 2022 tweet posted by Netflix’s official account.
Koepp has previously worked on the screenplays for 1993’s Jurassic Park, 1996’s Mission: Impossible, 2002’s Spider-Man, 2005’s War of the Worlds, 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and many more.
Aurora does not yet have an official release date from Netflix.
