Should I commit suicide now or later? Oliver Stone is planning to make the first major film on the 911 terrorist attacks:
Three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone will direct superstar Nicholas Cage in the first major Hollywood movie about the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, producers announced.
The as-yet untitled film, which will be made for Paramount Pictures, will tell the true stories of the last two men to be rescued alive from the ruins of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York.
“It’s an exploration of heroism in our country — but is international at the same time in its humanity,” said Stone, who won best director Academy Awards for his war epics “Born On the Fourth Of July” (1989) and 1986’s “Platoon”
“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 issued by producers.
Will people of ALL RELIGIONS all over the world join me in saying this phrase? “GOD SAVE US ALL…” (Atheists can say “Bill Gates save us all…”) More:
Oscar-winning star Cage will take the lead role of New York Port Authority policeman Sergeant John McLoughlin, who was trapped along with one of his fellow officers in the mangled wreckage of one of the twin towers that crumbled after being hit by hijacked passenger jets.
“I feel someone had to tell the story of the people who were in the Trade Center before and after it collapsed,” said McLoughlin of the plans to make his story into a major movie.
“The people involved in putting this movie together are truly making an extraordinary attempt to tell those stories and the stories of those who are no longer with us,” he said.
And we are sure from Mr. Stone’s past films that it will be totally accurate. Nothing political will be woven into it. No assumptions will be presented as facts. No fictional “events” or characters will be inserted into the chronology to promote a specific point of view. AND:
The movie will focus on the two men as well as on their rescuers and families as they battle to find out what happened to their missing loved ones in the aftermath of the attacks that left a total of around 3,000 people dead in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.