LOS ANGELES, USA (AP) — Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s movie about the Black Ops hunt for Osama Bin Laden is set for release next year.

Columbia Pictures, which acquired the domestic distribution rights to the film earlier this week, says the untitled movie will come out at the end of 2012.

Bigelow and Boal each won a pair of Oscars for producing, directing and writing last year’s best picture, The Hurt Locker. The two began developing the film about the Black Ops’ mission to capture Bin Laden in 2008.

Co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment Amy Pascal says Bigelow and Boal “have an outstanding perspective on the team that was hunting the most wanted man in the world”.

Bin Laden, the al-Qaeda mastermind, was shot dead by US troops in a raid on his compound in Pakistan on May 1 this year.

The death of the reviled US enemy sparked jubilation across the United States, with a huge crowd gathering outside the White House just before midnight, chanting “USA, USA” as President Barack Obama told Americans of the killing in a dramatic nationwide address.

“Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children,” Obama said.

Obama said that acting on a lead that first emerged last August, he had directed the US armed forces to launch an attack against a compound in Pakistan where bin Laden was hiding.