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Director Kathryn Bigelow set to shoot movie in Boston

Kathryn Bigelow, pictured accepting the Oscar for best achievement in directing for “The Hurt Locker.”AP/file/Associated Press

Word is director Kathryn Bigelow, who became the first woman to receive an Academy Award for best director for her 2008 film, “The Hurt Locker,” will be shooting her next movie in Boston. (Among Bigelow’s other credits are “Zero Dark Thirty” and our personal favorite, “Point Break.”) Still without a name — IMDb refers to it as “Untitled Kathryn Bigelow Project” — the new movie has been described as a true crime drama based on a script by Mark Boal, who won the Academy Award for original screenplay for “The Hurt Locker.” It’s set in Detroit and takes place against the backdrop of riots that erupted in the Motor City over five sweltering days in the summer of 1967. If you’re wondering where, and how, such riot scenes might be filmed in Boston, we are, too. It’s not clear when shooting might start.