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Telegraph Uk
| Quote: | Hollywood producers revise film script involving suicide bombers
By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
(Filed: 31/07/2005)
Hollywood producers of the black comedy American Dreamz are reconsidering the script after the London attacks because it involves suicide bombers attempting to assassinate the American president.
The film, starring Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid and Willem Dafoe, features a group of Pakistani terrorists, who target a mentally frail president played by Quaid. The spate of attacks on London by Islamic extremists have, however, rattled the film-makers, Paul and Chris Weitz.
Last night, a member of the film's production team admitted that the storyline might be too sensitive for the film's scheduled release in February 2006. He told The Sunday Telegraph: "Obviously we're extremely concerned about the sensitivities everyone has towards terrorism, especially in London."
The script has been written by Paul Weitz, who previously worked with Grant on the adaptation of Nick Hornby's About A Boy. Mr Weitz has described American Dreamz as "a satire of American politics and showbusiness".
Grant, 44, plays a disaffected television personality, rumoured to be modelled on Simon Cowell, the belligerent judge on Pop Idol, while Quaid plays a president called Sutter who is weathering a nervous breakdown. Chris Klein and Mandy Moore, 21, the American singer-actress, who plays a fame-seeking teenager, are also starring in the production. Universal Pictures, which is distributing the film, last night remained cagey about the suicide bombing plot.
The lead terrorist is thought to be named Omar, an unfortunate choice in the light of Wednesday's arrest of bombing suspect Yasin Hassan Omar. The 24-year-old Somalian is being questioned in relation to the failed blast at Warren Street Underground station on July 21.
While he was being held at Paddington Green station in London, however, the film-makers continued discussions about the plot's direction.
They refused to say whether the terrorists would be edited out of the script entirely, or who had been lined up to play them. Insiders indicated, however, that as shooting on American Dreamz has only recently begun at the Universal Studios in Hollywood, making amendments to the script would be fairly straightforward.
The Weitz brothers are producing the film through their company, Depth of Field. They would not comment on the budget for the movie. Chris Weitz attended St Paul's School in west London before going on to study English literature at Cambridge University.
After September 11, a number of Hollywood productions were postponed. Collateral Damage, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and included a terrorist bombed skyscraper, was delayed, as was Disney's Big Trouble, which involved a stolen nuclear warhead hidden at an airport. |
a black comedy…about terrorists????
and they wonder why attendance is down???
what is wrong with these people????
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