Nicolas Cage to star in upcoming 9/11 movie

Reuters | 7-8-05 | Steve Gorman

[bannie]

He didn't start out with talent. He was just lucky enough--by birth--to be able to "go to school" in the business. Did you see the boy in "Peggy Sue Got Married"? GACK!!!

[SteveMcKing]

Until we treat Mr. Stone et al. like the domestic enemies they are, we shall not win victory in the WoT.

[bannie]

I would love to see a "family tree" of Hollywoodies. Talk about a tree with no branches!

[bannie]

LOL! I was sure I said something there...

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[bitt]

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~aneeshk/miniWeb/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040419-610048,00.html

'YOU'RE MR. CONSPIRACY. DO YOU THINK PRESIDENT BUSH KNEW ABOUT 9/11 BEFORE IT HAPPENED?

No, I don't particularly think so. I think they were taken off guard. It's probably somewhat as Richard Clarke has portrayed it.

YOU WENT TO YALE. SO DID GEORGE W. BUSH AND JOHN KERRY. ANY CHANCE FOR A CLASS REUNION?

I knew Kerry a little bit at Yale. We all looked up to him. He was head of the political union, and he was almost presidential material then. He looked like Abraham Lincoln.

snip

HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TODAY FOR A LIBERAL FILMMAKER TO FIND BACKING?

It's impossible. There's a decision, a consensus, that a certain kind of movie "will not work." I'll always feel that you can take the most boring subject and make it gripping. JFK was gripping, love it or hate it. People weren't thinking about J.F.K. at that point; he was off the books. At worst, the movie opened up the debate.

WOULD YOU EVER DO A BIOPIC ABOUT THE BUSH FAMILY?

If I tried to do something like that, I would get so pounded before I even got a foot of film shot. I don't know if there's room enough on my back for the scars.'

From the Apr. 19, 2004 issue of TIME magazine

[octobersky]

I really like Nicolas Cage -- he's very attractive and talented -- but under the direction of Oliver Stone this movie will be extremely slanted. Oliver Stone seems to hate the U.S. and his movie will no doubt be as kooky as he is.

[Echo Talon]

Not sure if this is the new movie but this is a new poster that is making the rounds...

[bray]

Why isn't Michael Mooreon.org doing this one??

Pray for W and Our Amazing Troops

[stolat]

Though I do like Nicholas Cage I resent the fact that the Hollywoodians will now be lining up to profit from a tragedy of immense proportions and a war that they will not support. The whole idea makes me sick especially knowing that they will not depict it honestly and will politicize it. They blame America and President Bush and are in denial. The Muslims had better get their act together and decide that these attacks are their problem. (I am a little off the subject but very PI$$ed off.) The industry sucks; can't make any decent movies, and I hope this one is a flop,TOO !!!

[jayhorn]

I'd rather see Matt Stone direct a 9/11 movie than to have Oliver Stone direct it. Might as well have @#$%ing Osama himself direct it.

And Nick Cage is a hack. The only reason I have any respect for him is because he got a face full of Elisabeth Shue's ya-yas in Leaving Las Vegas.

Hollywood ... what a creative vacuum. Where is Gary Cooper when we need him?

[Jeff Chandler]

ABC is planning a miniseries drama based on the "9/11 Commission Report,"

I can only imagine how they'll portray it.

[Captain Peter Blood]

If Oliver Stone is involved I will have to pass.

[Accygirl]

Here's a li'l refresher link concerning Stone's last box office triumph...

http://alexanderthemovie.warnerbros.com/

'Nuff said.

[Xenophon450]

If its going to blow as much as Alexander, he should be shot for what he did to Alexander...sure he may have been Bisexual but come on focus more on the tactics...2 BATTLE SCENES IN THE WHOLE MOVIE GOOD LORD...and 2 hours and 30 minutes of Angelina Jolie B!tching about her husband.

[BIRDS]

This article had me intrigued until I got to the name of Oliver Stone.

I love Nicholas Cage as a policeman, 9/11, survivors, all that, then enter Oliver Stone and it's a given that it'll have Cage as remorseful for surviving, a moment where he has an epitome and realizes that HE, as an AMERICAN, is to BLAME and that he'll fall to his knees beside body parts on a Manhattan Street, yelling, 'WHY, WHY, WHYYYYY...' then pick up a tattered American flag and wipe his sweaty, tear-stained face with it, while being embraced by fearful Muslims, crying out, "please, puuhhleazze protect us from the lynch mobs!"...

developing...bad movie.

[nygoose]

How about that Mel Gibson?

[EGPWS]

That's what he did when he ate a live cockroach in the movie "A Vampires Kiss".

Being from the Hollywood crowd should one be surprised by his wanton personal directive?

[EGPWS]

Hollywood is freaking nuts.

No wonder it was the prime target of the Japanese in the movie "1941".

[Thinkin' Gal]

Stone will have President Bush personally flying the planes into the Towers by remote control while Dick Cheney chants "Halliburton " in the background.