NATIONAL TREASURE producer/director Jon Turteltaub is pulling together a movie about the founding of Greenpeace. The project's looking for writers and early discussions have already been had with Aaron Sorkin (THE WEST WING).
Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization's charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. The duo led an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as they attempted -- often successfully -- to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters. In the process, they inadvertently started a movement that is still going strong nearly four decades later.
they attempted -- often successfully -- to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests. Would an unsuccessful attempt result in the activists getting nuked? I know, I'm being too literal. Just sayin'...
Turteltaub also brought us one of my favorite TV shows...JERICHO...for which SyFy is airing a marathon as I post this piece.
