MGM In Talks With Sarandon/Robbins Over 9-11 Movie!!

[jonalvy44]

Dear MGM:

Please, no, no, no, say it isn't so! Don't defile the memories of the victims of 9-11 by allowing Mr. and Mrs. Sarandon to be involved with anything related to this national tragedy...Their blatant anti-Americanism taints any effort on their part to attempt to create a film about this event. This is not only disgraceful, it will not be financially successful for your company. The American public just won't tolerate it.

Jon Alvarez Syracuse, NY Why we fight: Visit Alvy's forum: Americans For Victory Over Terrorism: Bush Country

We Won't Forget!

Forwarding to other like-minded Americans:

Please contact MGM and tell them that this would be a disgrace for them to be involved with...I am totally disgusted.

Contact MGM to share your feelings at: MGM Contact Info: mgmonline@mgm.com

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/1818049.stm

Wednesday, 13 February, 2002, 14:15 GMT Film plan for Twin Towers hero

Susan Sarandon is an Oscar winning actress

Hollywood couple Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are to make a film about the 11 September attacks in New York, focusing on the bravery of a British security officer. Robbins and Sarandon are to base their film on the bravery of Rick Rescorla, a Cornwall-born war hero, who died in the attacks saving thousands of people.

Susan Greer holds a photo of her husband

The film is based on an article by James Stewart in the New Yorker magazine, All The Heroes Are Dead, and is one of three productions about the attacks on the Twin Towers currently in planning.

Rescorla moved to the US a the age of 23 and served in the US army in Vietnam, his exploits later recounted in the book - and now film, We Were Soldiers - in which he was described as a "battlefield legend".

Drama unfold

He was the head of security at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and died evacuating people from one of the New York towers.

In 1993, he was the last to leave the tower when a bomb was found in the centre.

Rick Rescorla has been called a "battlefield legend"

As the buildings came under attack he phoned his wife at home, who was watching the drama unfold on television .

He told her: "I don't want you to cry. I have to evacuate some people now. If something happens to me, I want you to know that you made my life."

Oscar-winning actress Sarandon will play Rescorla's wife Susan Greer, and she and Robbins hope to have a studio deal in place shortly.

The film will concentrate on the love story between the couple, described as "two fractured people who found each other late in life and enjoyed a storybook romance".

The World Trade Center disaster will provide a cruel finale to the film.

MGM has made a deal with writer Lawrence Wright to adapt his New Yorker article The Counter-Terrorist, while ABC is preparing a major documentary based on Dennis Smith's book Report from Ground Zero.

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[goldstategop]

Let's boycott ANY movie by these two. MGM and the rest of Hollywood will get the message fast - mess around with the American people and it shows up in your bottom line.

[Peach]

Howlin - can you use one of your ping lists for this?

[syriacus]

Will Michael Moore be involved in this "documentary"?

[ZULU]

I think the two would do great in a 9-11 film - in the role of the hijackers!!

[happydogdesign]

[astounded]

They're going to somehow allow these vermin to disgrace a hero of LZ Albany - how pathetic.

[epluribus_2]

maybe she will play Judy Woodruff, musing how americans need to consider what did we do to make them hate us so much...

[KarlInOhio]

I think the two would do great in a 9-11 film - in the role of the hijackers!!

Put Sarandon in a burka.

[TLBSHOW]

disgusting choice of fakes for this movie.

freep mgm but good

[TommyDale]

Oh, sure. As if anyone would actually pay to see this pair of idiots in a film about 9-11? That will be the day! If this is actually true, MGM just made my boycott list!

[Ptaz]

I agree. I just sent e-mail to MGM and asked them not to sully the memory of anyone who died or was harmed in 9/11 by using these two "anti-everything" types.

Can some conscientious freeper PLEASE post a list of advertisers of the movie Icebound that aired last night on CBS. I want to make sure I do not buy products advertised and I want to make sure I e-mail the companies. I have never been so offended by two people in a long time and I want to make sure I do not support them by spending one penny on any company that supports them.

[mel]

All I can say is Hollyweird must really be short on actors

[MississippiMan]

Where does it say MGM is considering this? I see where MGM is producing another 9/11 film, but I don't see any mention suggesting any particular studio is talking to these slugs on this one, only a blurb that they hope to have a deal soon.

MM

[Bigg Red]

I won't be contacting MGM. I say let them spend a bundle making such a movie and then watch them lose that bundle as America boycotts it.

[cibco]

Ping!

[Live free or die]

Are they TRYING to alienate the people who pay their bills? I'm sorry but it looks to me like these people are going out of their way to piss us off.

[logic101.net]

Hey, it depends on the roles they get! If they play terrorists or terrorist sympathysers (sp)....


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[MizSterious]

I agree. This looks like "in your face" stuff to me.

[Lady Eileen]

....is this a joke?