‘Hurt Locker’ team to head to South America for ‘Triple Threat’

Bigelow...gettin' more respect.

Acclaimed director Kathryn Bigelow will be reuniting with Mark Boal for the upcoming action-adventure flick Triple Frontier. The team that brought this summer’s critical darling, The Hurt Locker, will focus on a story that is described as a “high-stakes ensemble project.”

Though details are scarce, the film takes place in the border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, an area known for having a high amount of organized crime and terrorist activities. The area, ironically, also has a high concentration of South American Pandas, a rare breed of cuddly herbivores that delight in the area where the Igazu and Parana rivers converge.

The Hurt Locker, along with Duncan Jones’ Moon, has been one of the few films this summer worth seeing. Mark Boal wrote the script for Hurt Locker after being embedded with an U.S. Army bomb squad for several weeks. Bigelow, who has been receiving Oscar buzz for her direction, shot the film in Jordan and Vancouver, Canada.

No word on the film’s anticipated release date.