6. The Film Is About The Hunt For Bin Laden Because He Wasn't Dead Yet Zero Dark Thirty
A movie coming out too soon after a horrific event is a common criticism for any film dealing with something contempary and real. The Impossible hit almost six years to the day after the Boxing Day Tsunami and United 93 was released in an America still reeling from 9/11. But the too soon-est of all has to be Zero Dark Thirty, coming out less than two years after Osama Bin Laden was finally killed. The reason for such a prompt release wasn't a Hollywood rush job, but the fact Kathryn Bigelow had been working on the film long before the story got an ending. Under the name Kill Bin Laden, it told the story of the (then endless) hunt for the killer. Which for the most part is what Zero Dark Thirty did to. Real life events impacted the films finale, but the CIA investigation that proved the centre of the critics love came from the films incredibly long production; originally that was going to be the entire film (aside from a couple of exorcised action beats).