Oliver Stone to make 9/11 movie with Nicolas Cage

[mopaul]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/326471p-279107c.html

but mickey kaus would rather he didn't.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2122030/

Keep Oliver Stone Away from 9/11! Is Oliver Stone really the person to direct a big-budget film about the rescue of Officers McLoughlin and Jimeno from the rubble of the World Trade Center? Stone has shown he has trouble leaving history alone (most famously in JFK); he'll probably have some wacky, conspiratorial left-wing theory to add into the script. ... The McLoughlin rescue is a surprising. moving and patriotic story if you just tell it as it happened. Do you trust Stone to do that? I don't. ... Is Hollywood so out of touch it thinks Stone's version of 9/11 is what America is clamoring for? After Alexander, at that? ... Stone should be free to say what he wants. But it might be useful for Paramount's Brad Grey to hear that many Americans--including, say, a mob of salivating bloggers--are not eager to provide Stone with a paying audience. ...

[ReadTomPaine]

1. I'd prefer more "JFK" and less "Towering Inferno"

Here's hoping for the former.

[H2O Man]

4. Yes, that is right.

I enjoy Stone's works. And I know why his critics' don't.

[Catch22Dem]

2. It's a "patriotic" story?

Do you think patriotism was on anyone's mind at that moment? It's about survival, nothing more, nothing less. Do these fucking morAns understand what the word patriotism even means? I mean they throw it around ad infinitum, but do they UNDERSTAND it?

[mopaul]

5. a horror story

it'll be attacked before it even starts of course. i hope it's not designed to make our hearts swell with patriotism/nationalism. i'd half expected him to do a jfk approach on the tragedy, but, it's still too soon.

[wicket]

3. well this should be interesting to say the least!

n/t

[peekaloo]

6. Good. Stone stirs a BIG shit stick.

Rabble rouser of the highest order.

[InfoMinister]

7. Isn't He Supposed To Be In Jail

Last time I heard he took a bunch of drugs while driving on the highway and got arrested for it.