Oliver Stone and Paramount Pictures to make 9-11 movie

The movie which is supposed to star Nicholas Cage was announced by Paramount Pictures yesterday. It would chronicle the true tale of the rescue of two Port Authority workers trapped in the rubble that day.

This will be a very rare movie or tv drama dealing with that day's events. Paramount said in its release the film is "is a portrayal of how the human spirit rose above the tragic events of that day."

It's still possible the film may not come off. We'll just have to wait and see.

Paramount Plans Oliver Stone Film On Sept. 11 Attacks
By William BoothWashington
Post Staff WriterSaturday
July 9, 2005

LOS ANGELES -- Paramount Pictures announced Friday that it will finance and distribute an as-yet-unmade film about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, to be directed by Oliver Stone, no stranger to controversy, and starring Nicolas Cage.
If the movie does get made -- always a big if in this town -- it might be the first major-studio, high-dollar Hollywood production about 9/11 to find its way to the multiplex.

Nicolas Cage, above, has been signed to star in a Paramount Pictures film about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Oliver Stone, below, will direct.

Paramount rushed out its announcement of the deal after the Hollywood trade paper Variety reported on it Friday, linking it to the terror attacks in London, which Variety said came "at a time when Hollywood seems ready -- finally -- to tell the tale of Sept. 11."

The Paramount movie will focus on the true story of the rescue of two Port Authority police officers trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center. "The film," the studio promised in its statement, "is a portrayal of how the human spirit rose above the tragic events of that day."

A number of smaller films, TV shows and documentaries -- Michael Moore's wildly successful "Fahrenheit 9/11" being the most notable -- have addressed the attacks on New York and the Pentagon specifically, and terrorism in general. The FX network television show "Rescue Me," starring Denis Leary and now in its second season, deals with a New York Fire Department crew struggling to overcome its losses that day. The subject of terrorists running amok informs the story line on the popular Fox series "24," starring Kiefer Sutherland. In June, NBC scrapped plans for a 9/11 miniseries, but ABC still has one in the works. On the big screen, Sigourney Weaver starred in the indie film "The Guys" in 2002, which dealt with a fire captain's eulogy for eight of his lost men.