"For many countries hoping to boost their profile on the world stage it might be seen as a minor coup – to be chosen as the setting for the next film by one of the world's most celebrated directors.But this week South American politicians reacted angrily to plans for Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow's latest project, an adrenaline-filled expose of life in the notorious triple border region between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.According to reports last year in the industry magazine Variety, the film, provisionally entitled Triple Frontier, will be an 'action adventure … set in the [region's] notorious border zone'.Variety said the film would be directed by Bigelow and scripted by Mark Boal, the American journalist whose dispatches from Iraq were the inspiration for The Hurt Locker, the winner of six Academy Awards in March.During a visit to the region on Tuesday, however, Paraguay's tourism minister, Liz Cramer, told her country's La Nacio n newspaper the film should receive 'no support' from the government and local politicians and businesses were furious."
And there will probably be a lot of interest in the film. Oh well, so it goes. I, for one, will have to check this out. I didn't see The Hurt Locker (it's on my queue), nor am I at all familiar with Bigelow's work, but I was ecstatic that it beat the giant CGI turd known as Avatar. The victory must have even been sweeter given that Cameron was her ex-husband and, by all accounts, a major douche.
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