January 17, 2002

8:37 AM

Jerry Bruckheimer Presents: Sept. 11, the movieHe's done Pearl Harbor, which I guess makes this a natural next step. But will he wait until the earth cools at Ground Zero? And who'll play Osama? (Link via Dark Horizons)
posted by krewson (4 comments total)

Um, hello? The Onion already thought of this.
posted by jennak at 11:11 AM on January 17, 2002

That Onion link was so not funny. Even now.
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 3:36 PM on January 17, 2002

My apologies. The comment was intended to be funny, but came off as snarky. The thread about that issue of The Onion touches on too insensitive? vs. too hilarious? debate.
posted by jennak at 3:58 PM on January 17, 2002

I'm with jennak, the Onion struck just the right bitter-ironic note. I'm not as viscerally angry now, but it still resonates.

But to be fair, the Bruckmeister didn't really have anything in the works, he was just speaking very hypothetically, should such a script circulate around H'wood, that he'd like a shot at making it. But he seems certain (and so would I be) that those scripts will not take long to start circulating and he'll have several choices.
posted by dhartung at 5:08 PM on January 17, 2002