Sony Plans Movie Based on Richard Clarke's Book (It Was Only A Matter of Time)

AP ^ | 4-11-04 | my favorite headache

[EGPWS]

Lest the "gun is jumped" maybe Sony snarfed up the rights to prevent it's showing.

It's a Long shot scenario I know.

[chilepepper]

Well, I for one will never buy anything made by Sony from this day forward...

[ml/nj]

From today's NY Times Book Review of the Clarke book:

The first -- and by far the best -- chapter is a heart-stopping account of the turmoil inside the White House on the morning of Sept. 11, when Washington suddenly came blinking into a bloody new world. I hope Clarke has sold the rights to Hollywood, at least for his opening chapter, because I would pay to see this movie. You can guess who gets to play Jack Ryan in his retelling of that historic morning.

ML/NJ

[jennyp]

You know, at first I was inclined to dismiss it as a predictable throwaway movie that some leftist producer gets shown on some cable channel and then goes straight to video & is forgotten.

But then I thought about the Hollywood Ten and the HUAC hearings. When the hearings were going on, everyone in the country knew that every one of the Hollywood Ten were Communist Party cadre. But by the time I learned my American History in the early '70s, the Hollywood Ten had become a bunch of garden-variety (yet heroic) liberals who the mean anti-communist witchhunters nabbed off the street one day and railroaded before Congress.

I wonder when exactly the tide turned from the plain truth (the committee had every one of them dead to rights & everyone knew that) to a CPUSA-written fantasy about brave Americans fending off evil fascist dictators in the government? And how could that have happened? I figure it must have happened because everyone who was around in the late '40s just assumed that the truth that they read & heard about in their own lives would enter into history largely uncorrupted - so that future generations would learn the same basic truth of the story that they had experienced personally.

So the people let the leftists in academia turn communist propaganda into the Truth that was later spoon-fed to everyone of my generation.

So - h*ll yes we have to fight, expose, and ridicule this propaganda movie, and if we're lucky, snuff it out before it even gets off the page!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This is no different than the fiction that the alphabet news-hacks and newspapers create everyday to put forth their skiffy liberal message.

MESSAGE TO SONY: be careful what you wish for. Disney used to be a corporate heavy-hitter, now they're a has-been that Comcast is looking to purchase for pennies on the dollar. Don't think it can't happen to you.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"I care about the country, I am not a partisan hack who's doing it for the money!!"

[maica]

Write letters to editors, emails to talkshows, phone talk shows, speak up when you hear President Bush disparaged in a public setting, assume that our PC opponents will respect the "diversity" of our "peculiar" opinion.

In the interests of decorum, for too many years we have kept our opinions silent, and given the enemies of true freedom control of much of the media.

Have you been to the website = www.georgewbush.com ?

lots of volunteer potential there

[ladyinred]

Only a matter of time alright.
Right in time for the election, no doubt.

[OldFriend]

Payoffs, nothing more than that. And if they can bash the President while they're at it.....why not!

[Trajan88]

Every movie made with Clinton as the subject can only be found at the New Fine Arts store (adult entertainment store for those outside of Big "D").

Trajan88

[RoseofTexas]

Psalms 5:6 - Thou destroyest those who speak lies; the LORD abhors bloodthirsty and deceitful men.

Psalms 37:38 - But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalms 55:9 - Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues;

[upchuck]

Thank you for doing that. I was just getting ready to as I know I've seen this at least four times already on FR.

Hey Fav, ya ever consider doing a search^ before posting?

[My Favorite Headache]

Sorry it was the lead story on the AP wire at the time and didn't see it on the FR sidebar.

[My Favorite Headache]

Long time no talk Gene...Happy Easter!

[My Favorite Headache]

Cosmic Cow! I miss Ted Knight in a big way.

[KC Burke]

Whoops, the Central Casting Department just called and the movie will have to be abandoned....Pee Wee Herman has dropped out of acting due to other commitments and won't be available to play Dickie.

[NordP]

Sony Plans Movie Based on Richard Clarke's Book

First CBS, now Sony....we can boycott another (/snicker) and watch them lose money. They'll just never learn.

[weegee]

Well of COURSE Sony had to option this book. They needed a movie to compete in the marketplace with Disney's Michael Moore "October Surprise" (titled 'Fahrenheit 911').

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