Sony purchases movie rights to Richard Clarke's book (Against All Enemies)

USA Today ^ | 4/10/2004

[traumer]

NEW YORK (AP) — Former counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke's best-selling book may soon be a movie. Sony Pictures Entertainment has purchased the film rights to Against All Enemies, Sony vice chairwoman Amy Pascal told The New York Times for its Saturday editions.

In the best-selling book, Clarke, a counterterrorism adviser to the past three presidents, charges that the Bush administration prioritized Iraq above threats from al-Qaeda before and after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The movie version is to be produced by John Calley, the entertainment group's former chairman, who worked on the 1976 Watergate drama All the President's Men at Warner Brothers.

[traumer]

starring....

[Piquaboy]

When did it become a best selling book? Is it in the fiction or science fiction section of the book stores?

[dirtboy]

Former counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke's best-selling book may soon be a movie. Sony Pictures Entertainment has purchased the film rights to Against All Enemies

I'm gonna short Sony stock first thing Monday.

[traumer]

starring: Barbara Streissand...

[Glenn]

Alec Baldwin to star as the "Dickster".

[traumer]

I wonder if Michael Moore would accept this 'task'...?

[VadeRetro]

It's true, then. A lie can go around the world while the truth is still pulling its boots on.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Alec Baldwin as Clarke, unsung hero of the bureaucracy, 30 year government bow-wow...

[Mr. Jeeves]

Yeah, I'm sure Kerry appreciates the thought, but can they get the movie made in time for an early October release?

[chiller]

Haven't read it and won't, but I don't see how this is a movie with any appeal whatsoever. Lies, distortions aside....how is this a compelling story?

[anonymous_user]

Starring... Mike Meyers.

[Rocko]

Starring Larry "Bud" Melman.

[VadeRetro]

Yeah, I'm sure Kerry appreciates the thought, but can they get the movie made in time for an early October release?

I think this one will be a bit of a rush job, not a movie for the ages. Yes, they'll do it.

[Rocko]

With Hilary at the preview....

[tomball]

I would not buy the book. I would not pay to see the movie, I would not watch any television station that would choose to air it, nor would I knowingly buy any products from any company that would sponsor any of it.

Clarke is already collecting indefinite retirement and medical benefits on our tax dollars for spending fifteen years working in a job where he could not or would not perform. If he even bothered to take his job seriously, 911 may have never occurred - let alone the USS Cole, the WTC in 1993, the OKC bombing, etc.

I will not pay to read or see his pack of lies. It's bad enough that the main stream media is hell bent on force feeding it to us on a daily basis to further the democratic political agenda, and continues to line this man's pockets with more money.

[Rocko]

Sony Pictures Entertainment has purchased the film rights to Against All Enemies

[Abynormal]

They'd better release before the real stories come out and Clarke is facing prison.