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- He wrote “The Hurt Locker” on the side after reporting in Iraq as a journalist for Playboy (an earlier piece he wrote for Playboy became the seed for the 2007 film “In the Valley of Elah.”)
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Dec 21, 2009 · As a journalist, Boal reported from the front lines in Iraq, and his screenplay for The Hurt Locker was based in part on the time he spent with an elite bomb-disposal unit.
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Jul 22, 2009 · After spending time in 2004 as an embedded journalist in Iraq, Playboy writer Mark Boal turned his experiences and observations into a fictionalized character study of three bomb technicians in...
Feb 20, 2010 · Boal himself stepped into screenwriting (and producing) with “The Hurt Locker,” which explores the devastating affect of repeated exposure to high-intensity combat situations on the members...
When Bigelow expressed interest, Boal wrote a script for “The Hurt Locker” on “spec,” meaning without a definitive buyer in hand.
Writing. The Hurt Locker is based on accounts of Mark Boal, a freelance journalist who was embedded with an American bomb squad in the war in Iraq for two weeks in 2004. [9] In 2005, Boal pitched a film based on his Playboy article "The Man in the Bomb Suit" to director Kathryn Bigelow. [2]
Feb 2, 2010 · A few minutes ago, we called Mark Boal, who co-produced Locker and wrote its screenplay (Boal’s first-ever script), to get his reaction. Congratulations on Locker’s big haul this morning.
Jul 23, 2009 · How did he come to write a script? The suggestion came from director Kathryn Bigelow. The pair produced The Hurt Locker independently, with an unstarry cast (brief appearances from Guy Pearce...
