Oliver Stone Makes 11/9 Movie

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NEW YORK - Nearly four years after the collapse of the World Trade Center, Oscar-winning director
Oliver Stone will direct a film based on the story of two police officers who were trapped in the rubble on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Nicolas Cage, who won a best-actor Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas," will star as Port Authority police Sgt. John McLoughlin. McLoughlin and fellow officer William J. Jimeno became trapped during rescue efforts after the collapse of the twin towers.

Paramount Pictures said the movie is expected to be released next year.

"It's a work of collective passion, a serious meditation on what happened and carries within a compassion that heals," Stone said in a statement Friday. "It's an exploration of heroism in our country — but it's international at the same time in its humanity."

Paramount said the film also will focus on the officers' rescuers and their families. McLoughlin and Jimeno are said to be the last two men rescued.

"I feel someone had to tell the story of the people who were in the Trade Center before and after it collapsed," McLoughlin said in a statement. "It needs to be told how this horrific tragedy brought Americans and the world together to help those in need."

While the star power of Stone and Cage will likely make the movie the most high profile film to tackle 9/11, it's not the first. Many independent films have turned their lens to downtown New York, and in the 2002 film "The Guys,"
Anthony LaPaglia played a fire captain who lost eight men in the towers' collapse.

Stone has won best-director
Oscars for "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July." He also has directed "Alexander," "Nixon," "JFK" and "Wall Street."

Screen credits for Cage include "Adaptation," "City of Angels" and "Moonstruck."
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They haven't made a movie about the OKC bombing, have they? Or what about the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand?

There's absolutely no point in making a movie like this. The entire event was brought to us in streaming video and audio. A lot of us watched as the towers collapsed onto New York. There's no need for a dramatization, it was as real as it got.

We've already had 9/11 The Movie. It was called News.

Oliver Stone should be lynched.
 
Oh darn, I wagered with myself right after the attacks that a movie would be made about it 2008 or later =/
 
Nicolas Cage, who won a best-actor Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas," will star as Port Authority police Sgt. John McLoughlin. McLoughlin and fellow officer William J. Jimeno became trapped during rescue efforts after the collapse of the twin towers.
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Just out of curiosity: why the hell does Nicolas Cage always plays the part of a cop?
 
He does? The only movies I can remember him playing cop were Snake Eyes, 8mm and The Rock (though he was more of a scientist there).
 
Heh. I was planning to do a short animation using video shots of people jumping off the towers and House of Pain's "Jump Around" song.

Jumparound! Jumpup jumpup and giddown!

But I decided it was overly cynical and tasteless, even for me.
 
Bradylama said:
They haven't made a movie about the OKC bombing, have they? Or what about the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand?
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No, but "they" made one about Pearl Harbour with virtually no outcry.

Still, seems like a pointless waste of time. They already did disaster movies throughout the seventies and eighties, does it take a non-fictional event to inspire one now?
 
Dramatic sub-genre.

No, but "they" made one about Pearl Harbour with virtually no outcry.
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That's because Pearl Harbor was a case of geo-political ambition. Though, there was plenty of outcry over it. It sucked ass.
 
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