Hollywood spins 9/11 tale
2003-06-20 10:50
Los Angeles - Hollywood is for the first time recreating the events surrounding the deadly terror strikes on New York and Washington to mark the second anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, sources said.
The television film, being made by Showtime Networks Inc, a New York-based movie producer and broadcaster, will depict the attacks from the viewpoint of events at the White House in the hours and days following the strikes.
Titled DC 9/11, the movie starts on the morning of the attacks and follows US President George W Bush's dramatic journey back to Washington immediately after hijacked jets ploughed into the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, Showtime sources said.
The docudrama will also follow his first historic visit to Ground Zero, the site of the fallen World Trade Centre twin towers in New York, as the world reeled from the impact of the attacks.
"Based on real life accounts, the film will interweave actual footage from these haunting events," the source said.
The movie will star Timothy Bottoms as Bush, Scott Alan Smith as White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, Lawrence Pressman as Vice President Dick Cheney and Penny Johnson Jerald as National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.
It is written and produced by accomplisheed television movie-maker Lionel Chetwynd and will be directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith.
Showtime is a wholly owned subsidiary of the giant US broadcasting titan, Viacom Inc.
- AFX