Funny about this 9/11 movie - it's a "runaway production."

[Lautremont]

It was filmed almost entirely in Toronto (the obvious exceptions being the middle east stuff - though David Cronenberg created Morocco in Toronto for "Naked Lunch" thanks to Gulf War I - and the location shots of Washington and New York), which doesn't exactly place it on the "most patriotically American productions of all time" list.

It also has a high population of actors not known for their right-wing sympathies. Shirley Douglas, who plays Madeline Albright, is an activist and the daughter of revered Canadian leftie Tommy Douglas. Michael Murphy often works with Robert Altman and played a thinly-disguised, totally unsympathetic Poppy Bush in "Silver City." Amy Madigan famously sat on her hands as others applauded Elia Kazan at the Oscars a few years ago.

This shows how cravenly this whole thing was put together, if you ask me: ideologically-driven filmmakers happy to conceal their true agenda from the actors (which I'm sure they'd have had to do to keep things running amicably) and to film their nonsense in a whole other country (which is a big deal politically, given the flap about "runaway productions," which shoot in Canada or elsewhere to save costs).

I look forward to ignoring the movie on Sunday and Monday.

[Lisa]

1. Shirley! Say it ain't so!

The other 9/11 propaganda movie ("DC 9/11 -- Time of Crisis") was also filmed in Toronto. I see a pattern emerging!

[edwardsfeingold08]

2. It's a huge insult to NY that they filmed in Canada

Thank you so much for picking up on this! The attacks of 9/11 hurt film industry workers in New York financially.

The producers had the opportunity to bring money and jobs to New York, but instead went for the bottom line. They don't care about New Yorkers and Americans--not working New Yorkers and Americans at least.

[Janice325]

3. Has anyone actually found out who is actually PAYING for

this $40 million monstrosity to air commercial-free? Is it Disney taking such a big hit? ABC??? Stockholders? Taxpayers?? David L. Cunningham (the director) and his fundie group, Youth With A Mission???? I'd really like to know who bankrolled this piece of historically inaccurate shit.