Let's make money off 9/11

I'll answer the question with another question.....

Is it ok to make movies based on World War II, in the same light? Even if it's a fictional character? They tell the tail of American history - why should this be any different?

In my opinion, I think it's a little unsensitive, but we all know they'll produce a movie sooner or later. I would think it is ok, so long as all anti-Muslim politics and pro-American politics are left out of it, or else they'd better plan on this movie only being recieved in the United States (and perhaps Britain, now) for some type of profit.

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why not? they make movies about the Holocaust.

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Not yet. Too soon.
WWII is okay 'cause it was a long time ago yet recent enough to be rememberd by some.
I know I listen intensly to my grandfathers stories of WWII, but 9/11 is too fresh, hell, it isn't even really over yet. We are still hunting for Bin Ladin.
I think they need to give it more time.

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Yes, right after WW2 the studio's made u boats of cash. But, the real films that too a serious look at the war did not come out for many years to follow. These films are just going to be puff pieces made to make America feel happy about itself. A pat on the back in film form. It is only our own fault that the films are going to make millions upon millions. Our fault that we are not making anything more serious or demanding anything with more content than a compliment.

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haven't we been telling stories about 9/11 since the moment the first plane crashed into the trade center?

anyway, i think there was a collection of images prepared by comic book artists sometime soon after the terrorist attacks (artistic impressions of the event). i can't imagine how many books have been written. we're swamped with television programs about it all. why not a ficitonal film?

we mediate tragedy, farce, cruelty, and everything wonderful and aweful through the fictional stories we tell. why not this too?

i just hope the film has some credible depth and artistic ambition.

cel

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what makes you think that a movie based on the 9/11 is "new" Have you seen the "The Guys"? Or that huge collaboration with directors all around the world making short films about the 9/11 repurcussions?

Hell did you even check imdb?
http://imdb.com/List?tv=on&&keywords=september-11-2001&&heading=19;september-11-2001

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I think it's ok for Stone/Cage to do a mainstream movie about 9/11. "The Guys" starred Anthony LaPaglia, but was not widely publicized, as I heard about it for the first time this weekend.

I trust Oliver Stone to make a good movie, and I am never disappointed by Nic Cage.

As far as the $$$ aspects, if people don't want to spend the money on it, or don't want to give people cash for fictionalizing that tragedy, they simply won't go to the film. Remember all the movies that were released recently that capitalized on military events: Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor (which stunk, but hey)

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