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August 16, 2005
Bloody Tuesday: Paul Greengrass' severe clear
Michael Fleming reports in Variety that "Universal is stepping up for a 9/11 movie, the second major studio film about the terrorist events." A 40-day shoot is set for October for Paul Greengrass to make Flight 93 via Working Title. The $15 million film "will be 90 minutes long and cover the flight in real time. It begins with the takeoff and hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 by terrorists, the discovery by passengers with cell phones that other hijacked planes had been steered into the World Trade Center... and the realization that their plane was being steered toward D.C. Pic culminates [with the] passengers... sacrificing their lives to bring the plane down..." Fleming notes that the pic is closer to his 2002 Bloody Sunday than his The Bourne Supremacy. It'll "be partly improvised with an ensemble cast, and Greengrass will use handheld cameras and other stylized techniques to give the film a gritty feel." He presented "a 20-page treatment that begins with a stream of consciousness summation of the tragedy [that the director] feels "changed our lives forever." [More machinations at the link.]
Posted by pride at August 16, 2005 02:48 AM
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