Mark Boal News

July 22, 2009
Inside The Hurt Locker with Writer Mark Boal
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 Baghdad. The result, the Certified Fresh film The Hurt Locker, has earned some of the biggest raves of the year from critics who hail Boal's riveting characterizations along with superbly tense direction from Kathryn Bigelow. More...