I just finished listening to the audio version of James Clavell’s “Whirlwind” about a multinational helicopter company working in Iran back in 1979, and how the revolution threatened to destroy the company and get many of them killed.
I had read the book many years ago. It was an astonishingly long audiobook (73 chapters) and must have easily been close to twenty hours but I came away with the feeling that, if there was EVER a movie for a mini-series, and the casting team would have had a blast selecting characters to play the parts, it is a mini-series that most producers and film companies would be unwilling to make out of fear they would offend someone.
Shame.
Exactly!
You cannot tell such a story without stepping on or trying to tap dance around some of the political/social sensitivities of today: race (other than white), religion (other than Christian), feminism/female empowerment (don’t show them as a weaker sex), sexual orientation and a little bit of national origin.
Better just kill more Nahhhzi’s and Russians.