'9/11 Commission Report' Sparks Two TV Miniseries

[seatnineb]

Looks like the 9/11 Ommission report is about to be embeded into our popular culture.......


Thu Oct 28,10:01 PM ET

ABC and NBC are planning to turn the best-selling "9/11 Commission Report" into miniseries dramatizing the suicide hijackings that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and prompted the U.S. global war against terrorism.

NBC said it has teamed up with Graham Yost, the writer-producer behind the acclaimed HBO war series "Band of Brothers," to develop a miniseries about the circumstances leading up to and including the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

Meanwhile, ABC's top programmer confirmed reports on Thursday that his network has a similar project in the works, also using the 567-page "9/11 Commission Report" as source material.

And this is my favorite line from this article:

The fact that the 9/11 report is a bestseller is indicative of not only its importance but also the way in which the story of the events is laid out in a clean narrative fashion," Reilly said in a statement. "And that is what we expect to do with this miniseries."


http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/va/20041028/109902611300.html

[impe]

1. Instead of reading the book...

I'll wait for the movie to come out. Maybe we'll learn exactly how the dim-wits were able to
fly the plane(s). I heard they were consulting with one of the director's from the Airplane movies...

[tngledwebb]

2. From the same team

that made Band of Brothers, based on a National Book Award nominee (for fiction?), and NBC still owned by General Electric ( in case some haven't noticed)...yup, it's all there, nice and tidy.
And some skeptics wonder why OCT'ers put THEIR trust in US corporate media.