Now this could be an interesting project. The documentary I saw on the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis was gripping and totally eye opening, for many reasons, none of which I will go into here and leave you to see the documentary and\or movie for yourself. It may well have been One Day in September, I don’t rightly remember the title.
Steven Spielberg was set to make this movie before War of the Worlds, but instead asked for another script rewrite. However the recent news seems to suggest that it will be pushed forward to begin this summer and a release date of December 23rd. Coming Soon has the story from the Hollywood Reporter:
The Hollywood Reporter says the Universal/DreamWorks project had been set to go before the cameras last year. Casting was under way when Spielberg decided to have Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner do a rewrite on the project, on which writers Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) and Charles Randolph (The Interpreter) also had worked.
With the project postponed, Spielberg moved quickly to begin filming his adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise.
The title? Vengeance. Currently starring Eric Bana and Daniel Craig, two fine actors.
Spielberg is definitely the one to make this movie, and will do so with compassion to all parties, but at the same time portraying the events clearly and without too much Hollywood bias, and should produce a piece of work which doesn’t quite lay the blame, but gives you enough to make your own judgements of blame and fault. It has potential for another Spielberg harrowing and emotional movie.
