

Also, some people took issue with how certain things were shown. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal for the story of historys greatest. The story and its conclusion are real, but the characters portrayed (including the character played by Jessica Chastain, above) are fictional, combined, or fictionalized. The movie is 2012's " Zero Dark Thirty," about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, per IMDb. The mastermind dies in a hail of gunfire and the story ends with the officials being grimly satisfied.Īs much as this sounds like the adaptation of a Tom Clancy novel, it's from a true story about how the United States was able to track down the man who arranged 9/11, the worst terrorist attack on American soil. The story of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden starts long before he was shot in his outpost in Pakistan, and if you’re looking for the tale of Seal Team Six and their heroics that night than this is not your movie.

Eventually, there is a tense showdown that ends in a violent gunfight. Zero Dark Thirty Director: Kathryn Bigelow Rated: R Release Date: Janu. As a result, a team of government officials doggedly track the mastermind of this horrific event for the better part of a decade. It is a day that sears itself into the psyche of those who were there and people still think about to this day. At the very least, we’re sure he’ll have a few stories to tell on set about real-life combat.A horrible terrorist attack occurs with the results being incalculable devastation in more than one city and a marked change in how a country views itself. To date, Levy has only featured in Julian Schnabel‘s “ Miral” but evidently impressed Bigelow/Boal enough recently in Jordan where he auditioned, to earn the role of Faraj (al-Libi is not part of his real name and is simply translated as “the Libyan”). He served in the Israeli army in dangerous areas of the long-standing Israeli-Palestine conflicts before making a name for himself on the theater scene.


Levy joins the star-studded cast that includes Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong and Edgar Ramirez but may very well be one of few (if any) cast members to have actual military experience. While lensing on the Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal reunion for the newly-titled “ Zero Dark Thirty” has already began, the duo look to be casting on-the-fly with little known Israeli theater actor Yoav Levy now joining the project as Osama Bin Laden‘s reported third-in-command, Abu Faraj al-Libi.
