Universal to Make 9/11 Flight 93 Movie

Hollywood has been strangely quiet when it comes to making films about the tragic events of 9/11. In fact, up until today, only Oliver Stone has anything in the works, and I can just imaging what he'll do to that story, given his "freedom" with the facts in Nixon and JFK. Now there's an announcement that a new movie will be made about Flight 93, one of the most dramatic and heroic events of that day (from Variety):

Hollywood's Universal Studios is reportedly planning to release a film on United Airlines' doomed Flight 93, the fourth plane hijacked on September 11, 2001, which crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

According to the entertainment industry publication Daily Variety, "Flight 93" recounts in real time the 90 minutes between when the plane was hijacked and when it crashed after passengers -- who were tipped off to the series of hijackings that day by a cell phone call -- are believed to have intervened to keep the commandeered plane from reaching its target in Washington.

It will be the second Hollywood film to explore the deadly September 11, 2001 attacks, following Oliver Stone's Paramount film, starring Nicholas Cage, which will tell the story of two police officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who were buried alive in the rubble of the twin World Trade Center towers.

If this is done well, I think it will be very, very big. It will be interesting to see how they shoot this, given that everyone going into the theater will already know how it ends.