MUMBAI: The production of a film the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is being hastened.

Hollywood‘s Oscar-winning scriptwriter Mark Boal worked on his still untitled script about the US search for bin Laden since last year almost completing it. The production of the movie with another Oscar-winner, Kathryn Bigelow, as the director was scheduled for the summer. 

Boal had been following the mission for quite some time, thanks to his access to military intelligence and his background as an investigative journalist. For him, the timing of bin Laden‘s death could hardly be better but the news comes late enough in the project‘s evolution that it‘ll maximise the movie‘s timeliness.

The scriptwriter and the director will now wait how the Arab world would react to the news on bin Laden‘s death to start production. Reportedly, Boal has already cancelled his trip to Afghanistan that he scheduled for the coming week.

Boal and Bigelow worked together as the scriptwriter and director of Hurt Locker in 2008. Last year, the film was awarded six Oscars including the best picture, best director and best original screenplay.