Hollywood tackles 9/11 with third feature

[emad]

Wednesday August 17, 2005

A third major Hollywood film about September 11 is in the works, it was announced yesterday.

Entitled Flight 93, the movie will follow events aboard the United Airlines plane that crashed in rural Pennsylvania. It is believed hijackers aimed to attack Washington DC but failed after passengers stormed the cockpit and voluntarily brought the plane down.

The project is to be helmed by British director Paul Greengrass, who won acclaim for his films Bloody Sunday and The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, before directing Hollywood hit The Bourne Supremacy. Working Title, the UK company behind Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones's Diary, will coproduce with Universal Pictures.

According to Variety, Flight 93 will cover the events in real time, or 90 minutes, from the moment the plane takes off, its hijacking, the passengers' discovery of the World Trade Centre attacks, and the realisation that their San Francisco-bound-flight is now heading towards Washington DC. The film will end with their decision to sacrifice their own lives by storming the cockpit.

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1550716,00.html

[emanymton]

1. Yawn.... Hook... Blame Clinton

Bush Lied. People Died. Media Cheered.

[KarenInMA]

2. I can't see that.

[w13rd0]

3. Will they also portray...

...in full dramatic fashion, Cheney giving the go-ahead for shoot-down? Because the events that actually took place are still unknown, and there's no solid indication that it is the action of the passengers that brought the plane down.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. My first thought was

"who would want to inflict that on themselves?"

Then I remembered Gibson's "Passion".

Hey, think anyone would be interested in a treatment - Two Weeks in Falluja. Middle-class Iraqi family, trying to hold things together as their country disintigrates, faces shelling, air-strikes and hunger while 15,000 US and allied troops destroy the city searching for 1500 insurgents.

Of course, it has the same problem. We already know the ending.

[zbdent]

5. Hmm, are they going to portray the gay guy who also helped jump

the hijackers?

Or are they going to "conveniently" leave him out?