Some might complain that “9/11” reduces the events of September 11, 2001, to just another disaster movie, but that’s actually one of its strengths: this isn’t a film that tries to parse the big, awful picture of what happened that day, or the geopolitics that led to it or the worldwide reverberations it caused. By focusing on a small group of people trapped somewhere they shouldn’t be, the film can, at least intermittently, succeed as a human-sized drama. In fact, titling the movie “Elevator” — the name of Patrick Carson’s original play, adapted here by Steven James Golebiowski and director.
- 9/8/2017
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Kirsten Howard Jul 26, 2017
A few weeks back, we discovered that Charlie Sheen had made a film about 9/11. Now we have a trailer for it...
9/11, Charlie Sheen's first film since 2013's Machete Kills, is due out later this year.
See related The Bourne Identity: the battle to make the first film
Although it's helmed by National Lampoon's Cattle Call director Martin Guigui, 9/11 is not...supposed to be...a comedy. It is in fact based on the Patrick Carson stage play Elevator, constructed using voicemails that victims of the two towers attack left in their last moments, and the story of Sheen's film features an incident where five people become trapped in a lift together in the North Tower and work as a team to find a means of escape before the building inevitably collapses.
There's now been a first trailer released for the film, and any preceding commentary we...
A few weeks back, we discovered that Charlie Sheen had made a film about 9/11. Now we have a trailer for it...
9/11, Charlie Sheen's first film since 2013's Machete Kills, is due out later this year.
See related The Bourne Identity: the battle to make the first film
Although it's helmed by National Lampoon's Cattle Call director Martin Guigui, 9/11 is not...supposed to be...a comedy. It is in fact based on the Patrick Carson stage play Elevator, constructed using voicemails that victims of the two towers attack left in their last moments, and the story of Sheen's film features an incident where five people become trapped in a lift together in the North Tower and work as a team to find a means of escape before the building inevitably collapses.
There's now been a first trailer released for the film, and any preceding commentary we...
- 7/12/2017
- Den of Geek
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