September 11th - the posters
Whatever your feelings of the decision by Hollywood to begin making films based on the horrific events of September 2001, there can be no denying the impact they'll have if handled well (or badly for that matter). Due for release in April in the US (September 1st over here) is Paul 'Bourne Supremacy' Greengrass' United 93, described as 'a real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.'
The poster has recently been revealed and it's a pretty striking design; the unforgettable image of the burning towers is framed by the outline of New York's Statue of Liberty. I'm glad the distributors haven't shied away from using strong imagery that this film deserves and I've got faith that Greengrass will do the subject matter justice. The decision to go with unknown actors is a good one in my opinion.
Oliver Stone's Nic Cage-starring World Trade Center is due in the Autumn and the poster for that is also a pretty strong one. All of us at SIC are hoping that this turns out to be Stone's masterpiece, and only time will tell if he's managed it.
For now check out the posters…
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March 31st, 2006 at 2:44 am
Wasn’t Flight 93 the supposed “Let’s do this Leeroy!” plane-of-heoroes? And weren’t there rumours that that Hollywood style stand-off had been constructed by the NASTY AMERICAN GOVERNMENT for the dead’s relatives as some kind of consolation for the fact that, erm, they might have shot the plane down so that no-one else got hurt? So now they’re making a Hollywood film based on something that was intended to sound like a Hollyoowd film? Oh. The. Irony.
March 31st, 2006 at 4:03 am
I want these movies to be really strong, they have to be, but I would find them hard to watch too.. I really strongly feel that the true legacy of 9/11 is the stories of the normal people who died, survived, and saved rather than the political fallout afterwards. Hopefully these films will go some way to making us remember that. I trust both Paul Greengrass and Oliver Stone have to to give us masterpieces in their own different ways - unshowy, powerful and truthful, but Stone inparticular cannot screw up, and i don’t think he will - his career rests on this film in a way - after the lameness of Alexander. I think we know that Greengrass’s film will be raw and kinetic - if anyone can make that movie it’s him.
random… Just watched Irreversible last week and feel sick after seeing the fire extinguisher scene. Nothing in Hostel comes close to that. The line just gets crossed hard between film violence and something much nastier. I couldn’t eat after. That is some fucked up shit, i respect that movie for taking it there ( sub bass and skin-crawling ultrasonics during the whole film ) but never want to see it again, ever. Not a date movie. Black Hawk Down - thats a date movie.
April 5th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
And so it begins: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4878368.stm