Paramount Pictures will finance and distribute an untitled feature about the rescue of two Port Authority police officers from the rubble of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks. Oliver Stone will direct the film and Nicolas Cage will star. Andrea Berloff, who recently signed to pen Par's remake of "Don't Look Now," has written the script reports Variety.
The timetable of the feature isn't clear, but the Stone project is on a fast track with pre-production already started in New York. It ain't the only film on the subject moving forward though, Columbia Pictures has already received a first script draft by Billy Ray ("Shattered Glass") for an adaptation of Jim Dwyer-Kevin Flynn book "102 Minutes". 'Minutes' addresses the rescue attempts that took place between the moment the first plane hit the World Trade Center and the collapse of the first tower.
On top of all this, ABC and producer Marc Platt are mobilizing a multipart film, written by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The movement on the project comes at strange timing, hitting the news services just hours after apparent terrorist attacks shut down the public transportation system of central London killing several dozen people.
Thanks to 'Stoner'.
