It didn't take long. Within not much than an hour after news of Monday's dramatic killing of Osama Bin Laden, speculation was hitting the net over potential movie versions of the US raid.
And no wonder: instead of hiding out in a cave in the rugged mountain borderlands between Pakistan and Afghanistan, as we'd been repeatedly been told, there was Osama putting his feet up in a massive and hugely suspicious fortress-like walled compound in the middle-class suburb of a verdant Pakistani town called Abbottabad, only a few 100 yards down the road from the country's premier military academy, and a mere two hours drive out of the capital, Islamabad.
You couldn't make this stuff up. If you scripted a movie along these lines, you'd never get greenlighted in a million years. Too unbelievable!
Maybe that's why the first Osama project, news of which surfaced shortly after President Obama's media announcement of the killing, is not about the raid as such but the hunt for the terrorist figurehead in the Tora Bora mountains several years ago. This is to be directed by Kathryn The Hurt Locker Bigelow, and was already in the planning stage.
My own choice, however, I consider to be unarguable. Think The Wire. Think sad but heartily lovable junkie with shopping trolley full of gewgaws. Think Bubbles, aka Bubs. Step this way, actor Andre 'Osama' Royo.
