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Jul 22, 2009 · Incredibly, the soldiers of the EOD — short for the US Army’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team — volunteer for this duty, an assignment with far more casualties than any other military post....
In 2004, the journalist Mark Boal spent two weeks in Baghdad, embedded with the members of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (E.O.D.) unit. Boal’s reporting led to the screenplay for “The Hurt...
The small-budget film was independently produced and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a U.S. Army EOD team in Iraq. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Italy during 2008.
Sep 11, 2021 · According to a 2009 article from The New Yorker, journalist/screenwriter/film producer Mark Boal molded the movie's screenplay from a Playboy article he had written about his experiences observing a real-life EOD unit in Baghdad in 2004.
Jul 28, 2009 · "The Hurt Locker" is a film based on U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams stationed in Baghdad, Iraq, early in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The story focuses on an EOD Team Leader, Sgt. 1st...
Jul 9, 2009 · Based on a script by Marc Boal, about a journalist embedded with Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams in Iraq in 2004, Bigelow filmed Hurt Locker during the red-hot Jordanian summer to...
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Jul 31, 2024 · Screenwriter Mark Boal began his career as a journalist and spent some time embedded with EOD units fighting the War on Terror. His script, while dramatic and affecting, never falls into the patterns that many fictionalized accounts of real conflicts do.
