Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some big news from the lips of Oliver Stone, who recently spoke to a college audience in New York. Stone says the movie is no longer "Oliver Stone's Untitled 9/11 Film", but WORLD TRADE CENTER. He also talked a bit about Nic Cage and some of the detail of the flick. Thanks to Masheen81 for sending this in!
Hey Harry
Oliver Stone took some time out of his schedule and visited my college [SVA] tonight. He spoke about the 9/11 film he's shooting in nYC currently;
*It's called "World Trade Center." Reminds me of how "Pearl Harbor"---a film that wasn't really about Pearl Harbor----was once called "Tennessee"
*He promised that this will be Nic Cage like you've never seen him before. The character he plays---Sgt. John McLoughlin--- is very, "John Wayne" in contrast to the other Port Authority office he's trapped with, Officer William J. Jimeno (Michael Pena), who's character is Latin and has a more vivacious mind and lifestyle.
*The film takes place in 24 hours.
*Policemen, firemen, and neighbors of the downtown area stop by frequently to make sure that "they're doing it right."
*The destruction of the towers is going to be done in L.A., not NYC.
*There wasn't much rewriting to be done on Andrea Berloff's script...he said this script came out of the blue and hit "him directly between the eyes"....
------>call me Masheen81
