Kathryn Bigelow poses backstage with her Oscar for Best Achievement in Directing for “The Hurt Locker” at the 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 7, 2010. Photo Credit: Matt Sales

Nearly seven years after the release of her last feature film, Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is returning with a film set on Netflix. The announcement was made during the streamer’s advance presentation on Wednesday.

According to hollywood reporterThe new film follows a group of White House officials “struggling to deal with an incoming missile attack on America” ​​The film will reportedly have a similar tone to zero Dark ThirtyBigelow’s hit 2012 film on the search for Osama bin Laden.

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Netflix did not confirm any of the above details during its presentation.

Bigelow is best known as the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar, an honor she received in 2006. hurt Locker, Bigelow has directed popular films such as the vampire thriller near the dark (1987), starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze point Break (1991), and sci-fi film written by James Cameron strange Days (1995)

after 2017 detroit, Bigelow has not made any feature films; He directed an Apple commercial and a short film hollywood reporter, He also served as an executive producer on the 2019 action film triple frontier,

The director was previously set to direct the Netflix adaptation of David Koepp’s disaster novel “Aurora,” however, according to reports new York TimesShe is out of this project.