World Trade Center
Release Date: August 2006
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Andrea Berloff
Genre: Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Website: Not Available
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jay Hernandez
Plot Summary: Academy Award®-winning director Oliver Stone tells the true story of the heroic survival and rescue of two Port Authority policemen – John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno – who were trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, after they went in to help people escape. The film also follows their families as they try to find out what happened to them, as well as the rescuers who found them in the debris field and pulled them out. Their story shows how the best in people rose above the tragic events of that day.
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First mentioned in this thread: 9/11 movie(s)
Here's a little more about the film (from a Jay Hernandez interview):
Hernandez will be seen later this year playing a Port Authority officer in the new Oliver Stone 9/11 movie World Trade Center, which filmed in New York last year and will be starting back up in Los Angeles soon. There's a lot of mystery and rumors swirling about the project because of Stone's proclivity towards conspiracy theories, but Hernandez denied this was the case. "It is Oliver Stone, but I can say that it's not in any way promoting some sort of conspiracy theory. It's the true life story of Port Authority officers that go in there to try to help people. It's about the human element like what these guys sacrificed to go in there to help people."
Hernandez talked a bit about the research and preparation that went into playing this role. "I went to the Port Authority and spent a lot of time down there with Will Jimemo, the guy that the story follows, and he gave us so much information in terms of making those moments and that experience real as an actor."
We asked Hernandez if he ever thought people would be able to get over the shock and tragedy of the events depicted in the film. "Maybe with time, but it will never go away," he admitted. "It's like Pearl Harbor or when J.F.K. or Martin Luther King got assassinated, any sort of great tragedy that a whole nation suffers through."
Release Date: August 2006
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Andrea Berloff
Genre: Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Website: Not Available
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jay Hernandez
Plot Summary: Academy Award®-winning director Oliver Stone tells the true story of the heroic survival and rescue of two Port Authority policemen – John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno – who were trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, after they went in to help people escape. The film also follows their families as they try to find out what happened to them, as well as the rescuers who found them in the debris field and pulled them out. Their story shows how the best in people rose above the tragic events of that day.
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First mentioned in this thread: 9/11 movie(s)
Here's a little more about the film (from a Jay Hernandez interview):
Hernandez will be seen later this year playing a Port Authority officer in the new Oliver Stone 9/11 movie World Trade Center, which filmed in New York last year and will be starting back up in Los Angeles soon. There's a lot of mystery and rumors swirling about the project because of Stone's proclivity towards conspiracy theories, but Hernandez denied this was the case. "It is Oliver Stone, but I can say that it's not in any way promoting some sort of conspiracy theory. It's the true life story of Port Authority officers that go in there to try to help people. It's about the human element like what these guys sacrificed to go in there to help people."
Hernandez talked a bit about the research and preparation that went into playing this role. "I went to the Port Authority and spent a lot of time down there with Will Jimemo, the guy that the story follows, and he gave us so much information in terms of making those moments and that experience real as an actor."
We asked Hernandez if he ever thought people would be able to get over the shock and tragedy of the events depicted in the film. "Maybe with time, but it will never go away," he admitted. "It's like Pearl Harbor or when J.F.K. or Martin Luther King got assassinated, any sort of great tragedy that a whole nation suffers through."
