Posted on 05/20/2006 9:10:48 AM PDT by lizol
Hollywood takes on Russia school massacre
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Big News Network.com Friday 19th May, 2006 (UPI)
Universal Studios and Image Entertainment are joining forces to make a Hollywood film about the terrorist attack on a school in Beslan, Russia.
The studios secured the rights to The School, an article about the tragedy written by New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers for Esquire magazine, the Moscow Times reported Friday.
Chivers' article centers around a father shot and left for dead on the day of 2004 attack that killed 331 people, mostly children.
Image Entertainment producer Brian Glazer said in a statement The School was a story that cries out to be told on the big screen.
I have no doubt it will make an unforgettable motion picture, Glazer said.
Well, if Hollywood's doing it, they'll find a way to blame George Bush for the whole thing.
A movie where a few hundred huddling, scared children are murdered.
Yea, the 21st Century American public will really pay to see that.
I'm sure the terrorist animals that were in that school will be portrayed in a sympathetic way.
Stephen Spielberg to direct?
But, but it was "too soon" for the Flight 93 movie, however it's ok for Hollywood to make this movie?
Over three thousand stories and they had to pick one from Russia.
Hollywierd!
The one story that would be a blockbuster for them, the story of an American Family that is caught up in terrorism
and overcomes family/political divisions to rise to the
occasion, endure, and overcome the terrorists in the way
Americans always have, is something they can't bring themselves to make.
Kinda funny, in a sad way.
No, it will be entirely sympathetic: "We're not sure what group they belonged to but there are certain resemblances to the right wing extremist groups they have in America."
The feel-good movie of the summer.
I'm surprised they haven't made of film of Columbine yet --Gus Van Sant's psuedo-fictional Elephant notwithstanding.
Thet being said, I am looking forward very much to Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. I've seen the trailer and it looks quite powerful.
sympathetic should be unsympathetic.
That's greaty Artie, but just one little change, gotta do it, make the bad guys a crazy Christian group. Then boffo! Like that guy in Davannon Code, all white and weid eyed. Don't want to offend anyone or lose overseas.
Glazer is behind The DaVinci Code. He'll probably blame Beslan on Opus Dei.
The State Department is 30 years behind the times, and needs a Gingrich style revamping.
If they do make a movie they should pay some of the profits to the victim's families. Yeah, that will happen!
Hollywood and today's entertainment in general really really suck.
Will the terrorists be changed into "white supremacists?" I simply can't imagine Hollyweird portraying this as it was, that would "not be nice" to the Islamo-wack-jobs, who are the darlings of the leftists.
Its late fall 2004. George W. Bush (played by that Napoleon Dynamite kid) knows due to accurate media polling that WAR HERO John Kerry (played by Tom Hanks) is going to sweep the Presidential elections. In a desperate attempt to hold on to his Presidential dictatorship, he sends in a rogue CIA team (starring George Clooney and Matt Daemon) disguised as Chetyian Muslim Terrorists.....I mean angry White Supremacists to kill a bunch of kids in order to scare people re-elect him to keep the War on Terror going.
Meanwhile evil Dick Cheney (played by Richard Dreyfuss) in a secret meeting with Halliburton executives, realizes he can make $50 dollars a body bag, so he tips off the Russian Army of the plot, hoping more deaths will reap more profits in body bags.
In Crawford Texas Cindy Sheehan (played by Susan Sarandon) has a dream that her son Casey (played by Tim Robbins) tells her of the evil Vice Presidents plan. With Barbra Striesands help (played by Brad Garrett from Everyone Loves Raymond) she gets on Babs jet to stop the Vice President before he can get away with his evil plan!
Yep.
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