Mark Boal


Screenwriter

Biography

Life Events

2004

Wrote "Death and Dishonor," the true story of a military veteran who goes searching for his missing son for Playboy magazine

2007

His story "Death and Dishonor" became basis for Paul Haggis' film "In the Valley of Elah"

2009

Wrote and co-produced with Kathryn Bigelow "The Hurt Locker,"an Iraq war thriller about an elite army EOD bomb squad

2012

Wrote screenplay for Bigelow directed "Zero Dark Thirty," based on the hunt for Osama bin Laden

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