WTC Movie of the Week?

[Rudee]

Do you think there is a possibility the networks are going to attempt to make several "movies of the week" based on the WTC tragedy? I think such a sensitive topic should be avoided by the networks. Kind of like Vietnam was, for many years until the movie Platoon came along and the viewing public was no longer afraid to discuss the subject.

Right now there is some slimy Hollywood executive sitting in his air conditioned office, with gold jewlery hanging off his neck, thinking with dollar signs in his eyes on how to capitalize on this tragedy through various television specials, documentaries, and movies. It sickens me to think of how many people are going to profit off this tragedy.

 

[Viper GTS]

Will there be documentaries? Probably. Books? Almost certainly.

But a movie?

I doubt it.

Viper GTS

 

[RSI]

I definitely see movies of this in the future. Perhaps even games influenced by it. No doubt it will happen. If it happens any time soon though, then the world is sick.

-RSI

 

[KBrinks]

i was saying the same thing... like people are lineing up lame actors to play lame rolls in a TV movie based on this... and that the suits will cast like OJ simpson or somtehing

 

[SpongeBob]

I guarantee the moment this stuff all went down some slimeball network exec was thinking "TV movie" Some people have no souls. If this happens, I will vow never to again view whatever network hosts it.

 

[PlatinumGold]

if they made a movie based on it and turned over all profits to a rebuild type effort i'd watch it.

 

[LarryXtreme]

All you really have to do is go here.

Amazon Top Sellers

Look at the top books. All related to the tragedy. Interesting how Nostradamus related books are so popular.

 

[loup garou]

I hope that even the TV execs have enough heart not to make a TV movie out of it. However, I believe that further down the line, in say 5-10 years after whatever conflict erupts from this is finished (I hope), we will see movies similar to those about Vietnam.

I've been thinking about this alot, because right before this happened, I'd been watching Vietnam movies and thinking about the horrors of war and what I would've done had I been called to fight. As a matter of fact, 2 weeks ago, to the minute, I was sitting in the Loewes theater on Sixth Avenue in New York watching "Apocalypse Now: Redux."

 

[Rudee]

My estimate is that the major networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) will wait about a year and a half to two years before we are inundated with movies of the tragedy. No way on earth will Jay Leno and David Letterman touch anything related to this in their monologue.