9/11 The Movie

[Barley]

Guess all the major film publishers are champing at the bit at the chance to make this motion picture epic.

I just wonder how long it will be? How long is a reasonable time to respect the feelings of the relatives and American public?

I guess we will see a film around about 2010? Think the first version will be pretty tame though, no realistic footage aka Saving Private Ryan. The first film will set the ball rolling and I guess by 2015 there will have been a string of them from all different perspectives (including the one with all the action and special effects).

Think the first publisher of such a film will risk a backlash from the American public on such a sensative topic though.

What do you think? Who would get the role of Bin Laden?

[Richelieu]

Leonardo DiCaprio

[Paul Hanson]

Someone British, so my guess would be either Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman or David Suchet.

[CerberusIV]

If the US can actually kill OBL or prove he is dead then the first version could start filming within a couple of years. It will be very much a gung-ho patriotism version portraying decent americans versus despicable rag-heads though.

Art Malik would do a good OBL but taking the part might be tantamount to saying "please assassinate me", whoever took it on.

[Cruddy]

I reckon Jeff Goldblum could do an excellent Bin Laden.

Whether he would want to or not is another question.

[Dauphin]

Bin Laden will be played by himself (i.e interposed footage) or by CGI.

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
Bin Laden will be played by himself (i.e interposed footage) or

... couldn't he or his family then claim royalties for breach of privacy and image copyright?

I don't think for a minute they would win in court - but it might give more publicity to an evil cause.

[Jac de Molay]

I don't really think there should be a movie.

But, on the bright side, I won't have to listen to idiots compare 9/11 to some Die Hard or Schwarzenegger flick all the time.

[Tolls]

"Someone British, so my guess would be either ... or David Suchet."

Suchet has already played your avatar, so having him play Bin Laden would be confusing...

[alva]

I don't think for a minute they would win in court - but it might give more publicity to an evil cause.

I would be nice to see him show up though and claiming his cheque.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Jac de Molay
I don't really think there should be a movie.

There will be, though. It's inevitable.

How many Pearl Harbour movies have their been?

[Flandrien]

Didn't Tom Clancy already write a book about it ?

(Even before 9/11, about an attack with an airplane on the white house.)

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
Someone British, so my guess would be either Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman or David Suchet.

I'd guess Rowan Atkinson is the only man that can pull it off.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Flandrien
(Even before 9/11, about an attack with an airplane on the white house.)

IIRC, it was the Japanese and it was against the Capitol Building.

[Arrian]

Yeah, Japanese kamakazi into the Capitol.

I really hope that 9/11 is left to serious documentaries, but I'm sure you're right, and Hollywood will eventually get around to making a movie about it. If so, I just hope Spielberg gets it.

-Arrian