MUMBAI: Sony has said that it will release director Kathryn Bigelow‘s film Navy Seal Team 6 on 12 October next year. The pickup marks another timely and elevated project for Amy Pascal and Columbia‘s slate.

The film, about the hunt of Osama Bin Laden and death thereafter, will follow the same release pattern that the distribution house followed for David Fincher‘s The Social Network.

Bigelow and writer Mark Boal, the pair behind the Oscar-winning Iraqi war film The Hurt Lockerhad been working on the project for some time when Bin Laden was killed. This changed the story‘s direction.

Boal and Bigelow will produce the project along with Megan Ellison of Annapurna Pictures which will finance the project.

After the success of The Social Network, Sony has proven themselves unafraid to try on dramas if the right creative people are involved.