Posted on 08/16/2005 10:59:09 AM PDT by HAL9000
A second major Hollywood film is to be made about the September 11 terrorist attacks, it emerged today.Flight 93 will be made British director Paul Greengrass and cover the flight in real time, beginning with takeoff and ending when passengers bought it down in Pennsylvania, Variety magazine reports.
It will follow Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone`s film based on the true story of two police officers trapped in the rubble of the Twin Towers. The yet-untitled picture will star Nicholas Cage and is currently in pre-production.
Flight 93 will depict how the United Airlines flight was hijacked by terrorists and the moment when passengers discovered on mobile phones that other planes had been flown into the World Trade Centre.
When they realised their plane was being steered toward Washington DC, the passengers are believed to have confronted the hijackers and sacrificed their lives to bring the plane down.
Greengrass won critical acclaim in 2002 for Bloody Sunday, a dramatisation of events leading up to the 1972 civil rights protest in Derry, Northern Ireland, when British troops opened fire and killed 13 protesters.
The director will reportedly use handheld cameras to give the 9/11 film a realistic feel.
In his proposal for Universal studios, obtained by Variety, he wrote: "I ... believe that sometimes, if you look clearly and unflinchingly at a single event, you can find in its shape something precious, something much larger than the event itself... the DNA of our times. Hence, a film about Flight 93." Work is expected to begin in October.
This definitely looks more promising than Oliver Stone's movie.
I have very low expectations for Stone's movie...to say the least.
Likely to be better than Oliver Stone's crap version.
I think both movies could be promising. I don't see why Stone's movie will be any less likely to suceed. His film really embodies the heroism too, since it's about the last two Port Authority officers pulled out of the rubble alive.
This is the same guy that directed The Bourne Supremacy I think. If so I don't like his shaky cam technique. It ruined an otherwise good movie.
Did you not see JFK? Have you not heard Oliver Stone's rantings about Bush?
Is Cage in Oliver Stoner's film, or the Brits?
Never mind. A.D.D. and Reading=bad
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