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Nicolas Cage to star in film about 9/11

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Stone, Cage to team up on film about 9/11

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NEW YORK (AP) -- 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."

Paramount said the film also will focus on the officers' rescuers and their families. McLoughlin and Jimeno are said to be the last two men rescued.

"I feel someone had to tell the story of the people who were in the Trade Center before and after it collapsed," McLoughlin said in a statement. "It needs to be told how this horrific tragedy brought Americans and the world together to help those in need."

While the star power of Stone and Cage will likely make the movie the most high profile film to tackle 9/11, it's not the first. Many independent films have turned their lens to downtown New York, and in the 2002 film "The Guys," Anthony LaPaglia played a fire captain who lost eight men in the towers' collapse.

Stone has won best-director Oscars for "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July." He also has directed "Alexander," "Nixon," "JFK" and "Wall Street."

Screen credits for Cage include "Adaptation," "City of Angels" and "Moonstruck."

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A movie called The Guys, where Sigourney Weaver talks to people in order to write a story about firefighters that died in 9/11, was a decent movie. Of course, it was all talking and no special effects, so it couldn't get a major theatrical release.
 
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I'll pass on the movie...

....with Oliver Stone as its director it will inevitably have a spin with an undercurrent of conspiracy. My guess is that he will go with the off the wall idea that Bush knew about it beforehand, that Osama was just his unwitting dupe, and the Israelis had something to do with it. The movie will be an anti-Bush screed.
 
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IronBuckI said:
The political spin that Stone puts on everything, and the fact that Cage obscenely over acts amount are two reasons that I won't be going to a theater to watch this movie.
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"Really"

Ever notice in most Cage movies he is given the opportunity to utter that one word line above? Normally he does this with some kind of gormless, vacant look on his face.
 
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sandgk said:
"Really"

Ever notice in most Cage movies he is given the opportunity to utter that one word line above? Normally he does this with some kind of gormless, vacant look on his face.
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No I didn't. But now that you mention it. I can hear him saying that in just about every movie that I've ever seen him in.
 
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sandgk said:
Can we hope Stone will not inject his own political agenda into what should, at heart, be a story of human tragedy and perseverance?
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"It's an exploration of heroism in our country - but it's international at the same time in its humanity."


What does that last part tell you? that's Hollywood-ese for "We're also going to explain how the U.S. 'had it coming' and how 'Dubya' was not only responsible, but even knew about the attack in advance" or some such crap.
I doubt they will show any scenes of arabs dancing in the streets when they hear that the WTC had collapsed.

I hope I am wrong and it really is about what 2 Americans went through on that terrible day and gives us something positive to take from it about the human and American spirit.
 
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