Posted on 03/12/2006 7:30:34 PM PST by Kimmers
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hot off his best picture win for "Crash," Paul Haggis is in final negotiations to direct and produce "Against All Enemies," a project based on Richard A. Clarke's best-selling memoir chronicling the Bush administration's handling of terrorist threats.
Clarke, a former U.S. terrorism czar, offers the ultimate insider's account into the nation's security apparatus, featuring a cast of power brokers that includes President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and himself.
The book was published by Free Press in March 2004 and hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, fueling intense criticism over the administration's security failures and its decision to go to war with Iraq.
It is unclear whether Haggis will tackle Columbia Pictures' hot-button political drama next or sandwich in another directing project first. Either way, he will initially supervise scribe James Vanderbilt ("The Rundown"), who is penning a second draft of "Enemies." Haggis is currently writing "Death and Dishonor" for Warner Bros. Pictures, which he is attached to direct.
In addition to nabbing a best picture Oscar for producing "Crash," Haggis also won a statuette for writing the film's original screenplay with Bobby Moresco. His producing credits also include last year's best picture winner, "Million Dollar Baby," which he adapted.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
Now HERE is a movie I wanna see--oh, wait, I have seen it, sorta... (humor)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z11B9L2awVA&search=shining
Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuke!
really really gross
Whoa.... I forgot all about Clarke and his book after both were so thoroughly discredited.
Now somebody wants to make a movie based on that book??
Very odd.
They never learn...
There were endless articles in the MSM (on almost a daily basis!) about how American is finally accepting Queers, etc. There has been silence since them. It shows that the MSM is just a marketing arm of Hollywood.
BTW, is Brad Pitt still considering playing the role of a queer in an upcoming Hollywood movie? That "rumor" has also stopped being circulated after Humpback didn't win the Oscar...
I didn't believe that Pitt article, and couldn't care less if he wants to do such a film. I happen to think he's done some excellent movies but the man has the brain of stale tuna--listening to him explain his idea for a replacement for the WTC towers made me want to crawl under the sofa, or at the very least toss him down a flight of stairs.
Oh no...another boring bummer movie.
Wasn't "Crash" - the crashing bore - enough? It was so unbelievably contrived. Lassie had more originality.
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