Oliver Stone To Direct 9/11 Film
This makes me shudder.
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.
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.”
Right. Because we wouldn’t want to be too inhumane to the international terrorist cabal which planned and executed the attacks on this country. Nor would we want to condemn them too harshly lest we offend terror sympathizers both domestic and foreign. That would be too insensitive.
I’m not one to judge a book by its cover, but I can almost smell the history revision and moral relativism from here.
Update:
The story itself is a compelling one, as Kevin from Wizbang pointed out in this post previously. Its just a shame that its going to be told by someone like Oliver Stone.



