Nearly four years after the collapse of the World Trade Center, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone will direct a film based on the story of two police officers who were trapped in the rubble on Sept. 11, 2001.

Nicolas Cage, who won a best-actor Oscar for “Leaving Las Vegas,” will star as Port Authority police Sgt. John McLoughlin. McLoughlin and fellow officer William J. Jimeno became trapped during rescue efforts after the collapse of the twin towers.

Paramount Pictures said the movie is expected to be released next year.

Source: Yahoo! News

Though it’s easy to view this enterprise as a disrespectful display of capitalism, I trust Stone and Cage will make a solid effort at bringing the heroism and honour those people demonstrated during the times to the cinemas. Better these two guys than some b/c-grades, in my opinion.

Instead of focusing on the dollars – which is inevitable given the blockbuster credentials and the event that it’s depicting – I think people should start remembering the fallen and the heroes associated with it. That appears to be the driver behind the movie. Let’s hope that it comes across that way on the big screen and that there isn’t too much “poetic license” taken by the producers/writers.

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Courtesy of the Bureau of Meteorology, as at 9am in Liverpool, we had WSW winds gusting at 65 km/h, and a temperature of 12 degrees celsius.

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