September 11th, motion picture?

bad idea. very, very, very bad idea.

Stone, Cage to Team Up on Film About 9/11

Sat Jul 09, 6:18 PM ET


Nearly four years after the collapse of the World Trade Center, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone will direct a film based on the story of two police officers who were trapped in the rubble on Sept. 11, 2001.

Nicolas Cage, who won a best-actor Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas," will star as Port Authority police Sgt. John McLoughlin. McLoughlin and fellow officer William J. Jimeno became trapped during rescue efforts after the collapse of the twin towers.

Paramount Pictures said the movie is expected to be released next year.

"It's a work of collective passion, a serious meditation on what happened and carries within a compassion that heals," Stone said in a statement Friday. "It's an exploration of heroism in our country but it's international at the same time in its humanity."

Paramount said the film also will focus on the officers' rescuers and their families. McLoughlin and Jimeno are said to be the last two men rescued.

"I feel someone had to tell the story of the people who were in the Trade Center before and after it collapsed," McLoughlin said in a statement. "It needs to be told how this horrific tragedy brought Americans and the world together to help those in need."

While the star power of Stone and Cage will likely make the movie the most high profile film to tackle 9/11, it's not the first. Many independent films have turned their lens to downtown New York, and in the 2002 film "The Guys," Anthony LaPaglia played a fire captain who lost eight men in the towers' collapse.

Stone has won best-director Oscars for "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July." He also has directed "Alexander," "Nixon," "JFK" and "Wall Street."

Screen credits for Cage include "Adaptation," "City of Angels" and "Moonstruck."

If someone made a movie about 9/11, you could always start the "a" story line about a fireman that starts his day, the "b" story could be a policeman that starts his/her day, "c" story about an worker in the towers. Bring all the stories together within one of the towers where three people meet in a terrible tragedy. If the focus is on the people and the families that went through it, not on Monkey boy(baby bush), then I really think it would appeal to the American people.

The timing is wrong I think, not that it is too early after the incident, but that the war on terror is still going strong. I glanced over the thread and did not notice, but is there a release date yet?

Who the hell could make a movie.

After the announcement last month about Paramount Pictures and director Oliver Stone mounting a production based on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Variety announced that Universal is going to be making the second major film about the events as director Paul Greengrass ('The Bourne Supremacy') will start shooting Flight 93 in October.

The $15 million film will show the events that took place on the doomed flight in real time from the takeoff and hijacking to the discovery by the passengers that other planes had been flown into the World Trade Center. The film will also show how passengers sacrificed their own lives to bring the plane down before it could be crashed into a Washington, DC landmark.

Greengrass is no stranger to filming tragic and harrowing events having directed Bloody Sunday, a similar documentary-like film about the 1972 Irish civil rights protest in Derry that ended in a massacre by British troops. Like that film, Flight 93 will be partially improvised with Greengrass using handheld cameras, giving the movie a gritty realistic feel. The project was greenlit based on a 20-page treatment by Greengrass, which noted that media, politicians, historians and religious leaders will try to find a context for the 9/11 tragedy as its fifth anniversary approaches next year. Presumably, Universal will release the film to coincide with the anniversary of the tragedy.