But it still feels a bit too soon to me.
Hawn Rolls with Sept. 11 Hijacking Pic for F/X
Reuters
Mar 8 2002 5:02AM
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Goldie Hawn has partnered with basic-cable network F/X to develop a movie about the passengers of United Flight 93, the hijacked jetliner that crashed in a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11.
F/X and Hawn's Cosmic Entertainment banner -- whose principals also include Kurt Russell and Hawn's children Kate and Oliver Hudson -- have optioned an article from Vanity Fair's December issue to serve as the basis of the project.
In five vignettes, the Bryan Burroughs-penned VF piece "Manifest Courage" chronicled the interaction between victims and their families on the morning of Sept. 11, from the time they began their day until the flight crashed at 10:06 a.m.
"Bryan's article did not spend very much time on the airplane on that day. Neither will we," F/X Entertainment president Kevin Reilly said. "This will not be 'The Taking of Flight 93."'
In fact, the last scene of the movie likely will be the boarding process. The concept is to memorialize the victims, through a series of vignettes looking at their lives before the fateful flight and how ordinary people would become heroes.
"It was almost impossible to comprehend the decision these people made to ultimately do what they did," Reilly said. "Everyone sat wondering if they would have had the same courage. None of them were wearing capes. They were just good people."
"We're going to find the drama in very small moments, set against what's ahead."
Everyone involved in the project insisted the material will be approached sensitively -- or they won't do it.
"We realize this is a sensitive subject," said Shanna Tyndall, the head of Cosmic's TV division. "We hope to do it justice and to memorialize the heroes made on the flight, as well as the heroes who were made after. Heroes also were made in those people they left behind."
Steven Tolkin, who most recently wrote Showtime's "Fidel," is set to write the picture.
Reilly said the key players have talked about mounting the picture as a commercial-free event on F/X, perhaps with one sponsor. They're also looking to attract a cast of well-known actors to play key parts, much in the way stars rose to the occasion for HBO's "And the Band Played On."
At least two other Sept. 11-related TV movies are in the works at other outlets. CBS has a picture from journalist-producer Lawrence Schiller that likely will take place in real time and will end up focusing on Flight 93. Canadian indie powerhouse Alliance Atlantis is talking to several networks about a picture focusing on the Hamburg, Germany, terror cell believed to be connected to the Sept. 11 hijackings
Hawn Rolls with Sept. 11 Hijacking Pic for F/X
Reuters
Mar 8 2002 5:02AM
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Goldie Hawn has partnered with basic-cable network F/X to develop a movie about the passengers of United Flight 93, the hijacked jetliner that crashed in a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11.
F/X and Hawn's Cosmic Entertainment banner -- whose principals also include Kurt Russell and Hawn's children Kate and Oliver Hudson -- have optioned an article from Vanity Fair's December issue to serve as the basis of the project.
In five vignettes, the Bryan Burroughs-penned VF piece "Manifest Courage" chronicled the interaction between victims and their families on the morning of Sept. 11, from the time they began their day until the flight crashed at 10:06 a.m.
"Bryan's article did not spend very much time on the airplane on that day. Neither will we," F/X Entertainment president Kevin Reilly said. "This will not be 'The Taking of Flight 93."'
In fact, the last scene of the movie likely will be the boarding process. The concept is to memorialize the victims, through a series of vignettes looking at their lives before the fateful flight and how ordinary people would become heroes.
"It was almost impossible to comprehend the decision these people made to ultimately do what they did," Reilly said. "Everyone sat wondering if they would have had the same courage. None of them were wearing capes. They were just good people."
"We're going to find the drama in very small moments, set against what's ahead."
Everyone involved in the project insisted the material will be approached sensitively -- or they won't do it.
"We realize this is a sensitive subject," said Shanna Tyndall, the head of Cosmic's TV division. "We hope to do it justice and to memorialize the heroes made on the flight, as well as the heroes who were made after. Heroes also were made in those people they left behind."
Steven Tolkin, who most recently wrote Showtime's "Fidel," is set to write the picture.
Reilly said the key players have talked about mounting the picture as a commercial-free event on F/X, perhaps with one sponsor. They're also looking to attract a cast of well-known actors to play key parts, much in the way stars rose to the occasion for HBO's "And the Band Played On."
At least two other Sept. 11-related TV movies are in the works at other outlets. CBS has a picture from journalist-producer Lawrence Schiller that likely will take place in real time and will end up focusing on Flight 93. Canadian indie powerhouse Alliance Atlantis is talking to several networks about a picture focusing on the Hamburg, Germany, terror cell believed to be connected to the Sept. 11 hijackings