I wondered when this would happen and the movies would start rolling out about the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, and now it looks like Hollywood has started the look towards it with a big move.
According to Coming Soon:
Paramount Pictures will finance and distribute an untitled feature about the rescue of two Port Authority police officers from the rubble of the World Trade Center, says Variety. Oliver Stone will direct the film and Nicolas Cage will star.
Andrea Berloff, who recently signed to write Paramount’ss remake of Don’t Look Now, has written the script. The Stone project is on a fast track with pre-production already started in New York.
Stone and Cage, this looks set to be a huge movie, and considering the subject matter a very controversial and meaningful one. I actually think that Stone could do this film a lot of good, despite some of his previous work. However it’s not a big scale film on the entire events, it’s going to really concentrate on the two Officers who went to amazing lengths (as so many did) to rescue people and were then trapped themselves.
That’s not all that’s going on though, there’s also news of another project in the works:
After optioning the Jim Dwyer-Kevin Flynn book “102 Minutes” in February, Columbia Pictures has already received a first script draft by Billy Ray, writer and director of Shattered Glass.
The project addresses the rescue attempts that took place between the moment the first plane hit the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. and the collapse of the first tower at 10:28 a.m.
Personally I think it’s about time that a lot of these stories were given some serious and insightful treatment. The documentaries and some of the movies to date have struggled to hit a mainstream audience, and the right stories really do deserve to be heard. The problem with Hollywood is how much they will dramatically alter the events for a movie audience. What do you think, is this the right time? Is the story too small and does the entire event need telling?
