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From MSN News: 9/11 Movie

Michael Pena, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Maria Bello have been added to the cast of Oliver Stone's forthcoming film about the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.



The movie, also starring Nicolas Cage, will be based on the story of two Port Authority police officers who became trapped during rescue efforts after the collapse of the twin towers.



Pena will portray Officer William Jimeno and Gyllenhaal will play his wife, Allison. Cage will play Sgt. John McLoughlin, while his wife, Donna, will be played by Bello, Paramount Pictures announced recently.


Is it just me, or is this in poor taste? It used to be that they would wait decades before dramatizing something of this magnitude, out of respect for the victim's & their families. Nowadays, you have agents calling the parents of missing children, trying to buy movie rights, before they even find the child!
I would've waited at least until the 10 year anniversary before making a movie like this.



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Honesly, I'm surprised they waited this long.

And I'm shocked the title isn't "Let's Roll - the Todd Beamer Story."

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Actually, they're making that, too, apparently.

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It'll air on the Discovery Channel on Sept. 11, 2005.



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“I think there will be some people who don’t like it because their family member isn’t highlighted, but when you’re a filmmaker, you have to balance all sorts of things.”

Oh Yeah, please show my relative's death. I'm jealous.

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Unfortunately in America it's not apparent to the public that we've merchandized 9/11 so much already. Bumper stickers, plates, ribbons, shirts, flags. I've even seen lighters with planes crashing into the twin towers on them, and now a film, not even 5 years after the event where a lot of people lost their lives. It's sick.

This isnt about making art or personalizing anything. Its about knowing how much 9/11 affected everyone, and knowing they'll go to see it in the cinema because of that and making a pretty penny from a sick nasty tragic event! This is no better than Mel 'The Passion' Gibson cashing in on Jesus' ordeal.

A little tenderness is needed around what happened then, and making a film will in now way do this. This is money-making propoganda.

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