Sony takes on 'Enemies' for Clarke book

Hollyeood Reporter via Drudge ^ | 4-10-04 | Gregg Kilday

[1066AD]

Sony Pictures has optioned film rights to Richard Clarke's nonfiction best seller "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror" for producer John Calley.

"Enemies" -- which was published last month by the Free Press, a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster -- has been at the center of the current national debate about America's readiness to respond to terrorist threats before Sept. 11. Clarke, who was a counterterrorism expert in the administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, appeared before the 9/11 Commission the week the book was published. During that hearing, he testified that the Bush White House didn't consider terrorism "an urgent issue" in the months before the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington.

His political memoir, currently in second place on Amazon.com's sales ranking, offers Clarke's assessment of the anti-terrorist efforts of the past four White Houses, all of which he worked in. "The book, written in a compelling, highly readable style, at times almost seems like a fiction thriller," Amazon.com reviewer John Moe wrote.

Calley, who stepped down as chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment in the fall, is producing such films as Mike Nichols' "Closer," an adaptation of Patrick Marber's play about two couples that is scheduled for a December release, and the big-screen adaptation of the fiction best seller "The Da Vinci Code," along with producer Brian Grazer and director Ron Howard.

Clarke was repped by ICM in the deal.

[1066AD]

Sleaze pays again. No doubt it'll star George Clooney as Clarke and be directed by Oliver Stone.

[freekitty]

Sony, I love your tvs; but your choice in movies sucks.

[BenLurkin]

Well Sony, pardon me while I . . .

[Socratic]

Fortunately, it won't be able to be made before the election and afterwards no one will care to see it, beyond the rabid leftist extremists. Translation: I'll bomb.

[Socratic]

edit: It'll bomb.

[BenLurkin]

Careful! 8^)

[arasina]

I love Sony's computers and digital cameras but I'm with you on their choice in movie production.

[P8riot]

NON-FICTION?!

[auboy]

Careful! 8^)

Huge grin!

[BunnySlippers]

Fortunately, it won't be able to be made before the election

Are you sure? Just asking as I know nothing about making movies.

[Cicero]

Maybe they can get Jane Fonda to play Clarke.

[ServesURight]

Buy Dell LCD TVs. Much better than the Sony Wegas.

[clintonh8r]

Suck Fony...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Translation: It'll bomb

I wouldn't put box office failure past the liberals. Michael Moron's Bowling for Columbine made $40 million off a measly $3 million production budget.

[Socratic]

"Are you sure?"

I'm feeling less sure with so many remonstrances to be careful and the knowledge that I am certainly not infallible. I guess we can only hope for the best (or the worst - depending upon one's perspective).

[GeronL]

They have to balance all those right-wing movies that Hollywood makes. /sarcasm

[buzzsaw6]

at times almost seems like a fiction thriller only because it is fiction

Pardon me, but your Freudian slip is showing!

[1066AD]

Perfect - Michael Moore can play Ted Kennedy LOL

[sonsofliberty2000]

"The book, written in a compelling, highly readable style, at times almost seems like a fiction thriller,"

Fiction does have a way of doing that stuff ya know...

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[Mike Darancette]

They'll probably do it as a minstrel show staring Rice and Powell.