Writer says bin Laden film, trailer not politically motivated

Oscar-winning director Bigelow stands during a shoot at the filming location of the movie "Zero Dark Thirty" in ChandigarhWASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Hollywood studio this week released a trailer for a film dramatizing the hunt for Osama bin Laden, but the film's screenwriter said the trailer was not meant to boost the campaign of President Barack Obama, who ordered the May 2011 commando raid in which bin Laden was killed. Earlier this year, U.S. Representative Peter King, the Republican who chairs the House committee on Homeland Security, said the filmmakers had "set out to tell a blockbuster, election year story about one of the most classified operations in American history. …



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