Stone returns to 9/11

'World Trade Center' helmer Oliver Stone is set to adapt controversial 9/11 memoir 'Jawbreaker'.

Oct 16 2006

Having tackled the subject of 9/11 with the recently released 'World Trade Center', Oliver Stone is at it again, adapting CIA man Gary Bernsten's controversial memoir 'Jawbreaker'.

Examining America's response to the terrorist attacks and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, the film will have a far more political bent than 'WTC'.

'This will be partly about the ground war in Afghanistan, among other things' Stone explained. 'We've been discreet because we didn't want 'World Trade Center' to be affected unnecessarily by political bullshit about Afghanistan.'

The film is bound to court controversy, not least because Stone has employed Cyrus Nowrasteh to write a second draft of the script. Nowrasteh's last credit was miniseries 'The Path to 9/11', which Democrats claimed played fast and loose with the facts to paint them in a bad light, and those same commentators will doubtless be suspicious of any political agenda in this new script.

Stone says he simply wants to make a good movie however. 'It has the potential to be very exciting. There's a lot of action and a thriller element that we're still trying to bring out,' he said. 'I'm not looking to make a political movie, but it always seems to come down to that with me.'

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