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Oliver Stone's 9/11 film to premiere Aug. 11
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-28 08:57
Oliver Stone'S feature film about the September 11 terror attacks will reportedly premiere in August next year, one month ahead of the fifth anniversary of the tragedy.
Oliver Stone director of the film 'Alexander' arrives to the premiere of the film in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004. Stone was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and drug possession, police said Saturday, May 28, 2005. [AP] |
The triple Oscar-winning director is making the first major Hollywood film about the attacks, which will tell the story of the last two people pulled from the rubble of New York's World Trade Center.
Paramount Pictures picked the August 11, 2006 date for the opening of the still-untied film, which will star Nicolas Cage, to "avoid the appearance that it was commercially exploiting the disaster," Daily Variety said.
"You really didn't want to be on that date because you don't want it to appear that we were trying to exploit it," said the studio's president of distribution Wayne Lewellen.
Producers are keenly aware of sensitivity of the subject matter as a four-year-old taboo on dramatizing the events that shook America slowly wears off with at least two films of the attacks in the works.
"It's an exploration of heroism in our country -- but is international at the same time in its humanity," said Stone, who won the Best Director Oscar for his war epics "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989) and 1986's "Platoon" as well as Best Screenplay for prison drama "Midnight Express" (1978).
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.
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.
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