Shoestring: Movies & TV Shows Resembled 9/11 Attacks
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Tony Gosling
May 17, 2013, 5:17:44 PM5/17/13
to UK 9/11 & 7/7 Truth
Here is my new blog entry, which has some little-known information
about a number of movies and TV dramas that were being produced in
September 2001, which, curiously, had remarkable similarities to the
9/11 attacks. You can read the original posting, with links to the
sources, on my blog, here:
http://shoestring911.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/hollywood-and-911-movies-and-tv-dramas.html
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=21923&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
[b]Hollywood and 9/11: The Movies and TV Dramas Resembling the
Terrorist Attacks That Were Being Produced in September 2001[/b]
[i]"It represents capitalism. It represents freedom. It represents
everything America is
about. And to bring those two buildings down would bring America to
its knees."[/i]
- Line from [i]Nosebleed[/i], a movie originally set to start being
filmed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
A significant number of movies and television dramas were being
produced at the time of the 9/11 attacks, which had storylines with
some remarkable similarities to the events of September 11, 2001.
These storylines featured incidents such as terrorist attacks at the
World Trade Center, terrorists hijacking a commercial aircraft, and
terrorists causing a jumbo jet to crash in New York.
The movies and TV shows would have featured some famous actors, and
were being made for major companies, such as CBS and 20th Century Fox.
Furthermore, employees of the military and other U.S. government
agencies are known to have assisted in developing the storylines of
some of these productions. Unsurprisingly, after September 11, the
movies and TV shows were either canceled or significantly rewritten so
as to remove any resemblance to the 9/11 attacks.
The existence of these movies and TV dramas, at the very least,
disproves claims that the 9/11 attacks could not have been foreseen.
It is worth considering, however, whether these productions served a
more sinister purpose in relation to 9/11, albeit unknown to most of
the people working on them.
This article examines seven movies and television dramas that were in
production at the time of the 9/11 attacks, which all had notable
similarities to aspects of what happened on September 11. These
proposed movies and TV shows received some attention after September
11 because of their resemblance to the attacks in New York and at the
Pentagon. [i]Newsweek[/i] even commented that the amount of movies and
TV shows about terrorism being made at that time "makes you wonder if
this [i.e. terrorism] wasn't an obsessive theme in the culture even
before September 11." [1] However, no one suggested that there might
have been a more sinister reason for there being so many productions
about terrorism. Instead, their existence was treated like a simple
coincidence.
[b]ACTION MOVIE FEATURED TERRORIST PLOT TO BLOW UP THE WORLD TRADE
CENTER[/b]
A number of movies and TV shows that were being produced at the time
of the 9/11 attacks are notable because they featured acts of
terrorism in New York or, specifically, at the World Trade Center.
A movie that is particularly striking is [i]Nosebleed[/i], which would
have been about a terrorist plot to bomb the Twin Towers. [2] It was
going to feature the well-known martial artist and actor Jackie Chan
as a window washer at the World Trade Center who uncovers the plot and
tries to thwart the terrorists. [3]
The script for [i]Nosebleed[/i] was initially written in 1999 by Stu
Zicherman and Raven Metzner, and developed after that. Zicherman and
Metzner had also come up with the film's storyline. [4]
A line reportedly in the script indicates that the fictitious
terrorists intended to cause the Twin Towers to collapse--like what
actually happened on September 11. A terrorist would say of the WTC:
"It represents capitalism. It represents freedom. It represents
everything America is about. And to bring those two buildings down
would bring America to its knees." [5]
[i]Nosebleed[/i] would have been a major film. It would have cost $50
million to $60 million to make, according to [i]Variety[/i] magazine.
[6] In May 2000, it was reported that Renny Harlin, who previously
directed action movies such as [i]Die Hard 2[/i] and [i]The Long Kiss
Goodnight[/i], was in talks to direct it, although whether he was
subsequently taken on as director is unclear. [7]
[b]FILMING WAS SET TO TAKE PLACE AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ON
SEPTEMBER 11[/b]
Not only did the plot of [i]Nosebleed[/i] have similarities to the
9/11 attacks, but a scene for the movie was scheduled to be filmed at
the top of one of the Twin Towers at 7:00 a.m. on September 11. [8]
The filming would have taken place at Windows on the World, the
restaurant at the top of the North Tower, according to Jackie Chan,
but it was canceled. So instead of being at the WTC, Chan was in
Toronto working on another movie, [i]The Tuxedo[/i], on September 11.
[9]
Had the filming gone ahead as originally scheduled, Chan and the other
people involved would likely have died, since everyone who was in
Windows on the World when American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North
Tower at 8:46 a.m. on September 11 was trapped and subsequently died.
[10] Chan told one newspaper, "I would probably have died if the
shooting went ahead as planned." [11] He said that on September 11,
after he learned about the attacks on the WTC, he was "like a walking
dead man" for the rest of the day. [12]
It is unclear why the filming at the WTC was canceled. According to
some reports, it was because the script for the scene there was late.
[13] According to the [i]Orlando Sentinel[/i], it was because Chan
"didn't want to make [i]Nosebleed[/i] without a finished script." "The
action was good, but, somehow, the script not ready," he commented.
[14] But Chan gave a different explanation to the [i]Boston Phoenix[/
i], saying: "The studio didn't really like the script of [i]Nosebleed[/
i] because it was not perfect yet. So my manager said: 'Don't worry.
If you do not like this film, we can do [i]Tuxedo[/i]. You will meet
with [Steven] Spielberg to see if you like it or not.' Then I met with
Spielberg and I say I will do [i]Tuxedo[/i], because I trust
Spielberg." [15]
Unsurprisingly, work on [i]Nosebleed[/i] was put on hold after 9/11
and the movie has never been made. [16]
[b]COMEDY MOVIE WOULD HAVE INCLUDED 'A BIG WORLD TRADE CENTER SCENE
WITH TERRORISTS'[/b]
Another movie was, like [i]Nosebleed[/i], notable because--as the
[i]Milwaukee Journal Sentinel[/i] described--its plot featured "New
York, the World Trade Center, and terrorists." [17] [i]Till Death Do
Us Part[/i] would have been a comedy starring the well-known actors
Billy Crystal and Michael Douglas. Its storyline, according to
[i]Newsday[/i], was "about two fathers, soon to be related by their
children's marriage," who have to take on "a terrorist bent on
creating havoc in New York City." The movie would have included "a
significant scene that was to take place at the Windows on the World
restaurant" at the top of the North Tower. [18] It featured "a big
World Trade Center scene with terrorists," according to Crystal, who
added, "Funny, but the whole story was about that." [19]
[i]Till Death Do Us Part[/i] was being made by Warner Brothers and
Franchise Pictures, and was written in 2000 by Nat Mauldin, whose
previous work included writing [i]Dr. Dolittle[/i], the 1998 comedy
starring Eddie Murphy. [20] Filming was set to begin on November 17,
2001. [21] The movie was put on hold after September 11, but it was
subsequently rewritten and was released in May 2003, renamed [i]The In-
Laws[/i] and with Crystal no longer starring in it. [22]
[b]NBC PLANNED A DRAMA SERIES ABOUT AL-QAEDA ATTACKS IN NEW YORK[/b]
A big-budget television drama was being developed at the time of the
9/11 attacks, which, like these movies, centered on terrorism in New
York. NBC was working on a five-hour miniseries, called [i]Terror[/i],
about a series of al-Qaeda attacks in the city. The show would have
been a crossover between the network's three [i]Law & Order[/i] series
(the original show, [i]Law & Order: Special Victims Unit[/i], and
[i]Law & Order: Criminal Intent[/i]) and was going to be broadcast in
May 2002. [23]
[i]Terror[/i] would have followed an Osama bin Laden devotee who goes
from an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan to New York. There, he
detonates explosives in the subway under Times Square, killing over
1,000 New Yorkers. [24] Investigators then discover a terrorist
release of anthrax, and the storyline would subsequently include the
threat of a release of smallpox. [25]
Dick Wolf, the creator of [i]Law & Order[/i], put forward the idea for
the show. When he was asked, early in 2001, if he had any suggestions
for a miniseries, Wolf answered, "Terrorism in New York City." This,
according to [i]Los Angeles[/i] magazine, was a story he had "long
wanted to do." When Wolf told Neal Baer, one of [i]Law & Order[/i]'s
executive producers, about the miniseries, Baer said the show should
specifically be about bioterrorism.
By June 2001, Wolf had written a 40-page outline for [i]Terror[/i].
[26] By August, Wolf and his colleagues were "deeply involved in the
story," according to Baer. [27] Filming was set to begin on September
24, less than two weeks after 9/11. [28]
On September 11, before the attacks took place in New York, Baer and
some of his colleagues were at a facility only a couple of miles from
the World Trade Center doing "preproduction planning" for the show.
[29] [i]Terror[/i] was canceled a week later, in light of the 9/11
attacks. [30]
[b]WRITER AND MILITARY OFFICIALS CONSIDERED 9/11-STYLE SCENARIO FOR
SERIES ABOUT TERRORIST ATTACK IN THE U.S.[/b]
Other movies and television shows being produced at the time of the
9/11 attacks stand out because their storylines featured terrorist
events that resembled specific aspects of 9/11: an aircraft hijacking,
a plane crash, and an attack in the U.S. that leads to a wider
conflict, like the actual "war on terror."
One of these was a TV miniseries called [i]World War III[/i], which
would have been about "how an act of terrorism on United States soil
expanded into global conflict," according to the [i]Dallas Observer[/
i]. Bryce Zabel, a longtime television writer and producer, who was
elected as chairman of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in
August 2001, was working on this show. He was scheduled to meet with
executives at the cable channel USA Network on September 13, 2001, to
present the details of his miniseries to them.
Zabel consulted the U.S. military while working on the storyline for
[i]World War III[/i] and apparently considered scenarios resembling
the 9/11 attacks. He has recalled: "My partner and I had worked
carefully with the Air Force and some Pentagon war planners to figure
out the possible scenarios by which such a conflict [i.e. a world war]
could come into being. The irony is that we had sort of rejected
something as radical as what just happened [on September 11] as being
a little too much."
Zabel has not said what kind of terrorist attack he eventually decided
to incorporate into his storyline. But he noted a similarity between
what his show envisioned and what happened on September 11, saying the
9/11 attacks meant that "the cautionary tale we hoped to tell in
fiction ended up becoming a cautionary tale told on the evening
news." [31]
Zabel's miniseries was canceled in response to the 9/11 attacks. But,
possibly referring to the similarity between its storyline and the
"global war on terrorism" that began after 9/11, Zabel said, two weeks
after September 11, that [i]World War III[/i] would have "reflected
exactly what's going on in the world right now." [32]
[b]PLANNED MOVIE FEATURED CYBER-TERRORISTS CAUSING A JUMBO JET TO
CRASH IN NEW YORK[/b]
One movie that was in the pipeline on September 11, called [i]WW3.com[/
i], would have involved cyber-terrorists causing a Boeing 767--the
type of plane that hit the Twin Towers--to crash just a few miles from
the World Trade Center.
Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox had been working on [i]WW3.com[/i]
since 1998. The movie, according to [i]Variety[/i], would have
featured "a high-concept, special effects-laden storyline involving
cyber-terrorists who have declared war on the United States." [33] It
was written by David Marconi, who previously wrote [i]Enemy of the
State[/i], a 1998 thriller starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman.
Marconi said his screenplay for [i]WW3.com[/i] was "incredibly
prescient about the events of September 11." He described the
storyline as "a blueprint for disaster." Notably, the movie's climax
would have featured a Boeing 767 crashing into a Simon and Garfunkel
concert in New York's Central Park.
Marconi was assisted by experts from the National Security Agency
(NSA) while he was working on the screenplay. He has recalled that
these experts were "more than helpful in laying out situations not
dissimilar from what happened at the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon" on September 11. On the day of 9/11, one of them even phoned
Marconi and said to him: "Turn on the TV. It's happening." Marconi has
not said whether the scenario of a 767 crashing into Central Park was
suggested to him by someone at the NSA. [34]
In August 2000, it was reported that [i]WW3.com[/i] would be produced
by Luc Besson, the well-known French film writer, director, and
producer. [35] The film was shelved after 9/11, but the script was
rewritten and made into the fourth [i]Die Hard[/i] movie, [i]Live Free
or Die Hard[/i], which was released in 2007. [36]
[b]'TOP-SECRET' MOVIE FEATURED A PLANE HIJACKING[/b]
20th Century Fox also worked on [i]Deadline[/i], a movie that would
have involved an aircraft hijacking. Few details are known about this
film. It was, according to the [i]Los Angeles Times[/i], "in top-
secret development" before September 11. All that has been reported of
its storyline is that it featured terrorists hijacking a commercial
aircraft.
[i]Deadline[/i] was reportedly being produced by James Cameron, the
renowned director of movies such as [i]Titanic[/i] and [i]The
Terminator[/i]. It was written by brothers Peter and David Griffiths,
who also wrote [i]Collateral Damage[/i], a movie about terrorism
starring Arnold Schwarzenegger that was released in 2002. [37]
[i]Deadline[/i] was put on hold after 9/11. [38] It was revived in
2008, with the new name [i]Nagasaki Deadline[/i]. At that time,
[i]Variety[/i] reported that the storyline "centered on an emotionally
damaged FBI agent who must decipher historic events in a desperate
race to avert a terrorist plot." It is unclear if this was the
original storyline of the movie or if the plot was changed after
September 11. [39] Five years later, the movie has still not been
made.
[b]TV MOVIE WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED THE INVESTIGATION OF A PLANE CRASH
POSSIBLY CAUSED BY BIN LADEN[/b]
One production is notable because, although it did not feature a
terrorist attack, its storyline centered on the investigation of a
plane crash, just as the 9/11 attacks led to the investigations of
plane crashes. Furthermore, Osama bin Laden would have been mentioned
in it.
[i]Fall From the Sky[/i] was to have been a TV movie for CBS. Although
being made for television rather than cinema, it had a large budget,
of $7.2 million. [40] It was written by Nicholas Meyer--who previously
wrote several of the [i]Star Trek[/i] movies--and Brian Rehak, and
would have starred Forest Whitaker, the award-winning actor of such
movies as [i]Bird[/i] and [i]The Last King of Scotland[/i].
[i]Fall From the Sky[/i] would have told the story of the crash of a
new type of passenger aircraft in which hundreds of people die, and
the investigation that follows. Whitaker was to have played the
National Transportation Safety Board official who leads the
investigation. [41]
The storyline, according to the [i]Chicago Sun-Times[/i], looked at
"the meticulous process of gathering scientific evidence after the
tragedy." [42] It also "dealt a lot with the [Federal Aviation
Administration] and issues of concealment," Whitaker said. [43] The TV
movie, according to Meyer, would show "the political pressures brought
to bear on the investigation." [44]
Furthermore, the storyline included investigators examining the theory
that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the crash. [45] According to
Meyer, it would transpire that terrorists were not to blame.
Filming was scheduled to begin in Winnipeg, Canada, around the start
of October 2001 and the TV movie was in preproduction in September
that year. [46] However, CBS canceled [i]Fall From the Sky[/i] shortly
after 9/11. [47]
[b]THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND THE ENTERTAINMENT
INDUSTRY[/b]
The fact that these movies and television shows were in production at
the time of the 9/11 attacks, at the very least, disproves official
claims that no one could have predicted what happened on September 11.
What we know of the storylines of these productions shows that some
scriptwriters, and people working for government agencies who assisted
them, did indeed envision scenarios resembling the 9/11 attacks. The
storylines are also evidence that some individuals may have had
foreknowledge of the attacks--a possibility that should certainly be
investigated.
It is also plausible that these movies and TV shows served a more
disturbing purpose. Might, for example, rogue individuals working for
U.S. government agencies have used a particular film or television
show as a cover, to help them prepare the 9/11 attacks?
When considering this possibility, it is worth noting that there has
been a long history of collaboration between government agencies and
the entertainment industry. Former CIA officer Robert Baer described
this relationship, saying, "All these people that run [film] studios,
they go to Washington, they hang around with senators, they hang
around with CIA directors, and everybody's on board." [48]
Furthermore, government agencies have, for many years, employed
entertainment liaison officers to influence the image of them
portrayed in the media. The FBI set up an office in the 1930s to
improve its image in movies, radio programs, and television shows. The
Department of Defense established a similar office in 1947.
The CIA was the last major government agency to establish a formal
relationship with the movie industry. It set up a basic entertainment
program in the early 1990s and employed its first entertainment
liaison officer in 1996. Other agencies, such as the Department of
Homeland Security and the Secret Service, similarly have motion
picture and television offices or employ official assistants to the
media. [49]
The CIA and the military have cooperated on numerous Hollywood
productions. The Pentagon provided its "full cooperation" for movies
such as [i]Top Gun[/i] (1986), [i]True Lies[/i] (1994), [i]Air Force
One[/i] (1997), [i]Transformers[/i] (2007), and [i]Iron Man[/i]
(2008). [50] And the CIA helped shape such movies as [i]Enemy of the
State[/i] (1998), [i]Bad Company[/i] (2002), [i]The Sum of All Fears[/
i] (2002), and [i]The Recruit[/i] (2003). [51]
[b]THE CIA'S 'VERY ACTIVE' NETWORK IN HOLLYWOOD[/b]
Although it only employed its first liaison to the entertainment
industry in 1996, the CIA has been working with Hollywood since the
1950s. [52] Jerry Naylor, a country singer and veteran of the
entertainment business, revealed that he was first recruited by the
agency in 1968, and subsequently "used his international fame as cover
to work as a secret agent for the CIA" on more than 100 occasions.
Naylor believes other celebrities must have similarly been employed by
the agency. "I think using celebrities from Los Angeles and Hollywood
for covert operations is probably something that the CIA liked to do,"
he said. "I doubt I was the only one." [53]
Furthermore, retired CIA intelligence officer Antonio Mendez (who was
played by Ben Affleck in the movie [i]Argo[/i]) wrote that when he was
head of the agency's disguise section, between 1974 and 1979, he
"engaged the services of many consultants in the entertainment
industry." These included makeup artist John Chambers, who won an
honorary Academy Award for his work on the 1968 movie [i]Planet of the
Apes[/i]. [54]
John Rizzo, a senior CIA lawyer, stated in 2007 that the CIA has "a
very active" network of people in Hollywood, helping "in whatever way
they can to give back." [55]
[b]WHAT PURPOSE MIGHT 9/11-STYLE TV SHOWS AND MOVIES HAVE SERVED?[/b]
It is also worth noting that movies had, long before 2001, been used
as a cover for covert operations, so if this tactic was utilized by
those who planned 9/11, it would not have been the first time a movie
served such a purpose. For example, from 1978 to 1982, Jerry Naylor
worked on the research and production of a movie called [i]The Bounty
Hunter[/i], which, Naylor has claimed, was a cover for monitoring
terrorists in the Lebanon. [56]
A better known example of the tactic was the subject of the Oscar-
winning movie [i]Argo[/i]. On that occasion, the CIA helped rescue six
American embassy workers who were trapped in Iran during the 1979 to
1981 hostage crisis by disguising them as a Canadian film crew that
was supposedly scouting the country for shooting locations.
The team running the operation set up a fake production company called
Studio Six Productions, with offices in a suite on the old Columbia
Studio lot in Hollywood. The company soon announced its first supposed
production--a science-fiction movie called [i]Argo[/i]--and arranged
for full-page adverts in [i]Variety[/i] and the [i]Hollywood Reporter[/
i] to publicize it. Using the cover of the Hollywood production
company and the movie, the CIA was then able to get the six embassy
workers out of Iran.
Studio Six Productions appeared so convincing that by the time it
closed, several weeks after the rescue, it had received 26 scripts,
one of which was from Steven Spielberg. The Hollywood community only
learned about the deception behind the company and its planned movie
17 years later, when the CIA decided to go public with the story. [57]
[b]WERE 9/11-STYLE MOVIES AND TV SHOWS USED AS A COVER?[/b]
Seeing how movies had previously been successfully used as a cover for
covert operations, we can imagine how films and television shows with
plots resembling the events of September 11 might have served as a
cover for some of the preparations for the 9/11 attacks. For example,
a person working on one of these productions could have used their
position to obtain information that would otherwise have been
unavailable to them and might have been beneficial for planning 9/11.
Jackie Chan has revealed how his involvement in the movie
[i]Nosebleed[/i], about a terrorist plot to blow up the Twin Towers,
enabled him to learn about the World Trade Center buildings. "We had
visited the location before September 11," he said. "The producer. My
manager. We had dinner upstairs. We were getting all kinds of
information. I was going to play a window washer, so they were telling
me things like how many windows the building had.'' [58] In his
preparation for the movie, according to the [i]Orlando Sentinel[/i],
Chan learned the "secrets" of the Twin Towers, such as "how air
pressure was regulated with doors that might be useful as gags in one
of his trademark fights," and "which sides of the buildings one could
work on to avoid the wind." [59]
Considering the opportunities the movie thus provided, might
[i]Nosebleed[/i] have been used by someone who, while working on the
film, was secretly involved in planning 9/11 and using their work on
the movie as a cover, in order to find out information about the Twin
Towers? This person might, for example, have been able to learn about
security at the World Trade Center and the layout of the towers, which
would have been useful information for anyone who wanted to plant
explosives, so as to cause the buildings to collapse on September 11.
Since the movie [i]Till Death Do Us Part[/i], like [i]Nosebleed[/i],
would have featured "New York, the World Trade Center, and
terrorists," it seems plausible that a person involved in its
production could similarly have used their position to obtain
information about the WTC.
A production like the TV movie [i]Fall From the Sky[/i] could have
provided different opportunities for a person who was secretly helping
to plan the 9/11 attacks. Since [i]Fall From the Sky[/i] would have
been about a National Transportation Safety Board official and the
investigation of a plane crash, a person working on it might have been
able to obtain information that would be useful for covering up the
truth of what happened on September 11 in the aftermath of the
attacks.
They might have learned what kinds of investigations would follow the
plane crashes on September 11 and how the National Transportation
Safety Board would respond. Such information could have helped the
group planning 9/11 determine how to obstruct the investigations that
would follow the attacks.
[b]PRODUCTION TEAM LEARNED 'A LOT OF THINGS MOST PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW'[/
b]
The experiences of those who worked on NBC's miniseries [i]Terror[/i],
about a series of al-Qaeda attacks in New York, illustrate the many
opportunities a television show or movie about terrorism could create
for someone who wanted to gather information on the subject.
Those working on [i]Terror[/i] did a lot of research, particularly on
bioterrorism, for the miniseries. They talked to "top law enforcement
people on the state, federal, and local levels" about the subject,
according to Dick Wolf. [60] Neil Baer talked to experts at the Rand
Corporation think tank and hired a consultant from Stanford University
in California. [61]
Those involved with the miniseries also consulted experts at the
University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, Johns Hopkins
University in Maryland, and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in Georgia. At one point, Baer said, the FBI talked to
them, because their "accumulation of so much information raised a red
flag." Baer said that as a result of their research, "We knew a lot of
things most people didn't know, because we spoke with so many experts
all over the country." [62]
It is worth noting, however, that it would surely only require a small
number of complicit individuals for a movie or television series to be
used to help with planning the 9/11 attacks. In her book [i]The CIA in
Hollywood[/i], Tricia Jenkins noted that when the CIA wants to
influence a particular production, its involvement with that
production is "shadowy and difficult to trace, especially since its
interactions often take place only between two well-placed
individuals, either in person or over the phone." [63]
If a movie or TV show was serving as a cover for those planning the
9/11 attacks, most people involved with it would therefore,
presumably, have been unaware that they were being used by individuals
with murderous intentions, and would have just thought they were
working on a normal production.
[b]9/11-STYLE MOVIES AND TV SHOWS NEED FURTHER INVESTIGATION[/b]
The fact that numerous movies and television dramas with storylines
resembling the events of September 11 were in production at the time
of the 9/11 attacks is surely something that requires closer
examination, especially in light of the history of cooperation between
government agencies and the entertainment industry. And yet, after
receiving some attention in the aftermath of the attacks, these
productions have been largely forgotten.
There are numerous questions that could be considered as part of a new
investigation of 9/11. For example, which individuals came up with the
scenarios resembling aspects of the 9/11 attacks for the storylines of
these movies and TV shows? Some of the writers have said that
scenarios similar to what happened on September 11 were suggested to
them by employees of the NSA and the military. So who were those
employees and what exactly did they suggest?
Investigators could presumably discover more details of the plots of
the TV shows and movies, and obtain copies of the scripts. And it
would surely be worth researching whether other productions with
storylines resembling the 9/11 attacks were being worked on in
September 2001.
Inquiries may well reveal a different story behind the terrorist
attacks of September 11 than the official account we were led to
believe.
[b]NOTES[/b]
[1] David Gates, "Living a New Normal." [i]Newsweek[/i], October 7,
2001.
[2] Some news reports after September 11 claimed that the Statue of
Liberty or the Empire State Building was the terrorists' target in
[i]Nosebleed[/i]. However, these claims were likely incorrect, as all
reports before September 11 stated that the World Trade Center was the
target.
[3] Benedict Carver and Chris Petrikin, "NL Wins Chan by a
'Nose.'" [i]Variety[/i], February 7, 1999; Michael Fleming, "Financier
Gets Friendly to Forge Shingle." [i]Variety[/i], October 3, 2000; Jeff
Jensen and Benjamin Svetkey, "Script Check." [i]Entertainment Weekly[/
i], September 24, 2001.
[4] Benedict Carver and Chris Petrikin, "NL Wins Chan by a 'Nose'";
Jeff Jensen and Benjamin Svetkey, "Script Check."
[5] Jeff Jensen and Benjamin Svetkey, "Script Check"; J. Hoberman,
"All as it Had Been." [i]Village Voice[/i], December 4, 2001.
[6] Charles Lyons, "MGM Has Chan Plan." [i]Variety[/i], May 24, 2001.
[7] "May 26: In Brief and Casting News." [i]The Guardian[/i], May 26,
2000.
[8] "Late Script Kept Chan From Tragedy." ABC News, September 19,
2001; "Jackie's Great Escape." [i]Empire[/i], September 19, 2001.
[9] Dustin Klass, "Chan Changes Suits for 'Tuxedo.'" [i]Columbia
Chronicle[/i], September 23, 2002; Roger Moore, "Jackie Chan: Seeing
is Believing." [i]Orlando Sentinel[/i], September 27, 2002.
[10] "The Last Elevator." [i]Morning Edition[/i], NPR, September 11,
2003.
[11] "Late Script Kept Chan From Tragedy."
[12] Dustin Klass, "Chan Changes Suits for 'Tuxedo.'"
[13] "Late Script Kept Chan From Tragedy"; "Jackie's Great Escape";
"Late Script Saved Chan From New York Attack." [i]The Guardian[/i],
September 20, 2001.
[14] Roger Moore, "Jackie Chan: Seeing is Believing."
[15] Peter Keough, "Jackie Chan: State of the Art." [i]Boston Phoenix[/
i], September 26, 2002.
[16] J. Hoberman, "All as it Had Been"; Elise Craig, "Unlucky Breaks:
When Hollywood Gets Blindsided by Bad Timing." [i]Wired[/i], July 18,
2012.
[17] Duane Dudek, "Douglas: Escapism of Movies Still Has
Value." [i]Milwaukee Journal Sentinel[/i], September 27, 2001.
[18] Anita M. Busch and Beth Laski, "Hollywood Forced to do a Retake
on Fall Films." [i]Newsday[/i], September 13, 2001.
[19] Karen Butler, "Billy Crystal's Little Monsters." UPI, November 1,
2001.
[20] Michael Fleming, "'In-Laws' Redo Brews; 'Nam Calls
Mel." [i]Variety[/i], November 15, 2000; Zorianna Kit, "Fleming Eyes
'Death' Chair." [i]Hollywood Reporter[/i], January 11, 2002.
[21] Karen Butler, "Billy Crystal's Little Monsters."
[22] Lisa Schwarzbaum, "Movie Review: The In-Laws." [i]Entertainment
Weekly[/i], May 30, 2003; "Overview: The In-Laws (2003)." [i]New York
Times[/i], n.d.
[23] Bruce Fretts, "The 3rd Degree." [i]Entertainment Weekly[/i],
September 7, 2001; Michael Fleming, "'Terror' Tactics at
NBC." [i]Variety[/i], September 10, 2001.
[24] Diane K. Shah, "Brotherhood of the Wolf." [i]Los Angeles[/i],
April 2002; Gary Levin, "Plot Ideas Ripped From the Headlines." [i]USA
Today[/i], December 5, 2002.
[25] Michael Fleming, "'Terror' Tactics at NBC."
[26] Diane K. Shah, "Brotherhood of the Wolf."
[27] "Critical Issues in Writing About Bioterrorism." Hollywood,
Health & Society, April 2, 2002.
[28] Gary Levin, "Plot Ideas Ripped From the Headlines."
[29] Todd Leopold, "Real Life Overwhelms Fiction for 'SVU' Producer."
CNN, September 9, 2002.
[30] Michael Fleming, "Terrorism Projects Shelved; a Green
Bana?" [i]Variety[/i], September 17, 2001.
[31] Robert Wilonsky, "Amused to Death." [i]Dallas Observer[/i],
September 20, 2001; John Leland and Peter Marks, "New Look for
Entertainment in a Terror-Conscious World." [i]New York Times[/i],
September 24, 2001.
[32] David Everitt, "Pondering a New, Darker Mood for TV." [i]Media
Life[/i], September 25, 2001.
[33] Chris Petrikin, "Fox Eyes 'WW3.com' as Tentpole for
1999." [i]Variety[/i], January 26, 1998.
[34] "Did Screenplay Foreshadow September 11?" Fox News, June 3, 2002.
[35] Dana Harris, "Fox, Besson Prepare for Battle." [i]Variety[/i],
August 24, 2000.
[36] Andre Salles, "Batavians' Son Carving Career as Hollywood Script
Writer." [i]Aurora Beacon-News[/i], June 8, 2007; Manohla Dargis,
"Pick Your Poison: Fists or Fireballs." [i]New York Times[/i], June
27, 2007.
[37] Patrick Goldstein, "A Turn of Events, a Change in Plot." [i]Los
Angeles Times[/i], September 25, 2001; "Terror Target Tinseltown
Boosts Security, Patriotism." [i]Washington Times[/i], December 10,
2001; Kent Williams, "Scary Movies: Terrorism, Hollywood-
Style." [i]Baltimore City Paper[/i], January 2, 2002.
[38] J. Hoberman, "All as it Had Been."
[39] Dave McNary, "Martin Campbell to Direct 'Deadline.'" [i]Variety[/
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[40] "Film Cancellation a 'Good Call.'" [i]Winnipeg Free Press[/i],
March 22, 2002.
[41] "Entertainment Briefs." [i]Chicago Sun-Times[/i], August 20,
2001; Army Archerd, "Cooke Joins 'Freedom's Journey.'" [i]Variety[/i],
September 19, 2001.
[42] "Entertainment Briefs."
[43] "Film Cancellation a 'Good Call.'"
[44] Army Archerd, "Gotham Events Should Shine." [i]Variety[/i],
September 24, 2001.
[45] Duncan Campbell, "Film Chiefs Search for Softer Subjects." [i]The
Observer[/i], September 30, 2001.
[46] Army Archerd, "Cooke Joins 'Freedom's Journey'"; "Film
Cancellation a 'Good Call.'"
[47] Army Archerd, "Gotham Events Should Shine."
[48] Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham, "An Offer They Couldn't
Refuse." [i]The Guardian[/i], November 14, 2008.
[49] Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes
Film and Television[/i]. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012,
p. 1.
[50] Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham, "Lights, Camera ... Covert
Action: The Deep Politics of Hollywood." Global Research, January 21,
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[51] Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in Hollywood[/i], p. 1.
[52] "The History of the CIA in Hollywood Movies." [i]The World[/i],
PRI, January 11, 2013.
[53] Simon Tomlinson, "Revealed: U.S. Country Star Jerry Naylor Who
Replaced Buddy Holly in the Crickets Was a Secret CIA Agent Who Spied
for America on 100 Missions." [i]Daily Mail[/i], April 24, 2013.
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in Hollywood[/i], p. 9.
[55] Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in Hollywood[/i], p. 94.
[56] Simon Tomlinson, "Revealed: U.S. Country Star Jerry Naylor Who
Replaced Buddy Holly in the Crickets Was a Secret CIA Agent Who Spied
for America on 100 Missions."
[57] Antonio J. Mendez, "A Classic Case of Deception," pp. 1-16;
Joshuah Bearman, "How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue
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[i]The CIA in Hollywood[/i], pp. 9-10, 96.
[58] Robert Denerstein, "Training Gives Chan Natural Kick." [i]Rocky
Mountain News[/i], September 28, 2002.
[59] Roger Moore, "Jackie Chan: Seeing is Believing."
[60] Michael Fleming, "'Terror' Tactics at NBC."
[61] Diane K. Shah, "Brotherhood of the Wolf."
[62] "Critical Issues in Writing About Bioterrorism."
[63] Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in Hollywood[/i], p. 69.
about a number of movies and TV dramas that were being produced in
September 2001, which, curiously, had remarkable similarities to the
9/11 attacks. You can read the original posting, with links to the
sources, on my blog, here:
http://shoestring911.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/hollywood-and-911-movies-and-tv-dramas.html
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=21923&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
[b]Hollywood and 9/11: The Movies and TV Dramas Resembling the
Terrorist Attacks That Were Being Produced in September 2001[/b]
[i]"It represents capitalism. It represents freedom. It represents
everything America is
about. And to bring those two buildings down would bring America to
its knees."[/i]
- Line from [i]Nosebleed[/i], a movie originally set to start being
filmed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
A significant number of movies and television dramas were being
produced at the time of the 9/11 attacks, which had storylines with
some remarkable similarities to the events of September 11, 2001.
These storylines featured incidents such as terrorist attacks at the
World Trade Center, terrorists hijacking a commercial aircraft, and
terrorists causing a jumbo jet to crash in New York.
The movies and TV shows would have featured some famous actors, and
were being made for major companies, such as CBS and 20th Century Fox.
Furthermore, employees of the military and other U.S. government
agencies are known to have assisted in developing the storylines of
some of these productions. Unsurprisingly, after September 11, the
movies and TV shows were either canceled or significantly rewritten so
as to remove any resemblance to the 9/11 attacks.
The existence of these movies and TV dramas, at the very least,
disproves claims that the 9/11 attacks could not have been foreseen.
It is worth considering, however, whether these productions served a
more sinister purpose in relation to 9/11, albeit unknown to most of
the people working on them.
This article examines seven movies and television dramas that were in
production at the time of the 9/11 attacks, which all had notable
similarities to aspects of what happened on September 11. These
proposed movies and TV shows received some attention after September
11 because of their resemblance to the attacks in New York and at the
Pentagon. [i]Newsweek[/i] even commented that the amount of movies and
TV shows about terrorism being made at that time "makes you wonder if
this [i.e. terrorism] wasn't an obsessive theme in the culture even
before September 11." [1] However, no one suggested that there might
have been a more sinister reason for there being so many productions
about terrorism. Instead, their existence was treated like a simple
coincidence.
[b]ACTION MOVIE FEATURED TERRORIST PLOT TO BLOW UP THE WORLD TRADE
CENTER[/b]
A number of movies and TV shows that were being produced at the time
of the 9/11 attacks are notable because they featured acts of
terrorism in New York or, specifically, at the World Trade Center.
A movie that is particularly striking is [i]Nosebleed[/i], which would
have been about a terrorist plot to bomb the Twin Towers. [2] It was
going to feature the well-known martial artist and actor Jackie Chan
as a window washer at the World Trade Center who uncovers the plot and
tries to thwart the terrorists. [3]
The script for [i]Nosebleed[/i] was initially written in 1999 by Stu
Zicherman and Raven Metzner, and developed after that. Zicherman and
Metzner had also come up with the film's storyline. [4]
A line reportedly in the script indicates that the fictitious
terrorists intended to cause the Twin Towers to collapse--like what
actually happened on September 11. A terrorist would say of the WTC:
"It represents capitalism. It represents freedom. It represents
everything America is about. And to bring those two buildings down
would bring America to its knees." [5]
[i]Nosebleed[/i] would have been a major film. It would have cost $50
million to $60 million to make, according to [i]Variety[/i] magazine.
[6] In May 2000, it was reported that Renny Harlin, who previously
directed action movies such as [i]Die Hard 2[/i] and [i]The Long Kiss
Goodnight[/i], was in talks to direct it, although whether he was
subsequently taken on as director is unclear. [7]
[b]FILMING WAS SET TO TAKE PLACE AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ON
SEPTEMBER 11[/b]
Not only did the plot of [i]Nosebleed[/i] have similarities to the
9/11 attacks, but a scene for the movie was scheduled to be filmed at
the top of one of the Twin Towers at 7:00 a.m. on September 11. [8]
The filming would have taken place at Windows on the World, the
restaurant at the top of the North Tower, according to Jackie Chan,
but it was canceled. So instead of being at the WTC, Chan was in
Toronto working on another movie, [i]The Tuxedo[/i], on September 11.
[9]
Had the filming gone ahead as originally scheduled, Chan and the other
people involved would likely have died, since everyone who was in
Windows on the World when American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North
Tower at 8:46 a.m. on September 11 was trapped and subsequently died.
[10] Chan told one newspaper, "I would probably have died if the
shooting went ahead as planned." [11] He said that on September 11,
after he learned about the attacks on the WTC, he was "like a walking
dead man" for the rest of the day. [12]
It is unclear why the filming at the WTC was canceled. According to
some reports, it was because the script for the scene there was late.
[13] According to the [i]Orlando Sentinel[/i], it was because Chan
"didn't want to make [i]Nosebleed[/i] without a finished script." "The
action was good, but, somehow, the script not ready," he commented.
[14] But Chan gave a different explanation to the [i]Boston Phoenix[/
i], saying: "The studio didn't really like the script of [i]Nosebleed[/
i] because it was not perfect yet. So my manager said: 'Don't worry.
If you do not like this film, we can do [i]Tuxedo[/i]. You will meet
with [Steven] Spielberg to see if you like it or not.' Then I met with
Spielberg and I say I will do [i]Tuxedo[/i], because I trust
Spielberg." [15]
Unsurprisingly, work on [i]Nosebleed[/i] was put on hold after 9/11
and the movie has never been made. [16]
[b]COMEDY MOVIE WOULD HAVE INCLUDED 'A BIG WORLD TRADE CENTER SCENE
WITH TERRORISTS'[/b]
Another movie was, like [i]Nosebleed[/i], notable because--as the
[i]Milwaukee Journal Sentinel[/i] described--its plot featured "New
York, the World Trade Center, and terrorists." [17] [i]Till Death Do
Us Part[/i] would have been a comedy starring the well-known actors
Billy Crystal and Michael Douglas. Its storyline, according to
[i]Newsday[/i], was "about two fathers, soon to be related by their
children's marriage," who have to take on "a terrorist bent on
creating havoc in New York City." The movie would have included "a
significant scene that was to take place at the Windows on the World
restaurant" at the top of the North Tower. [18] It featured "a big
World Trade Center scene with terrorists," according to Crystal, who
added, "Funny, but the whole story was about that." [19]
[i]Till Death Do Us Part[/i] was being made by Warner Brothers and
Franchise Pictures, and was written in 2000 by Nat Mauldin, whose
previous work included writing [i]Dr. Dolittle[/i], the 1998 comedy
starring Eddie Murphy. [20] Filming was set to begin on November 17,
2001. [21] The movie was put on hold after September 11, but it was
subsequently rewritten and was released in May 2003, renamed [i]The In-
Laws[/i] and with Crystal no longer starring in it. [22]
[b]NBC PLANNED A DRAMA SERIES ABOUT AL-QAEDA ATTACKS IN NEW YORK[/b]
A big-budget television drama was being developed at the time of the
9/11 attacks, which, like these movies, centered on terrorism in New
York. NBC was working on a five-hour miniseries, called [i]Terror[/i],
about a series of al-Qaeda attacks in the city. The show would have
been a crossover between the network's three [i]Law & Order[/i] series
(the original show, [i]Law & Order: Special Victims Unit[/i], and
[i]Law & Order: Criminal Intent[/i]) and was going to be broadcast in
May 2002. [23]
[i]Terror[/i] would have followed an Osama bin Laden devotee who goes
from an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan to New York. There, he
detonates explosives in the subway under Times Square, killing over
1,000 New Yorkers. [24] Investigators then discover a terrorist
release of anthrax, and the storyline would subsequently include the
threat of a release of smallpox. [25]
Dick Wolf, the creator of [i]Law & Order[/i], put forward the idea for
the show. When he was asked, early in 2001, if he had any suggestions
for a miniseries, Wolf answered, "Terrorism in New York City." This,
according to [i]Los Angeles[/i] magazine, was a story he had "long
wanted to do." When Wolf told Neal Baer, one of [i]Law & Order[/i]'s
executive producers, about the miniseries, Baer said the show should
specifically be about bioterrorism.
By June 2001, Wolf had written a 40-page outline for [i]Terror[/i].
[26] By August, Wolf and his colleagues were "deeply involved in the
story," according to Baer. [27] Filming was set to begin on September
24, less than two weeks after 9/11. [28]
On September 11, before the attacks took place in New York, Baer and
some of his colleagues were at a facility only a couple of miles from
the World Trade Center doing "preproduction planning" for the show.
[29] [i]Terror[/i] was canceled a week later, in light of the 9/11
attacks. [30]
[b]WRITER AND MILITARY OFFICIALS CONSIDERED 9/11-STYLE SCENARIO FOR
SERIES ABOUT TERRORIST ATTACK IN THE U.S.[/b]
Other movies and television shows being produced at the time of the
9/11 attacks stand out because their storylines featured terrorist
events that resembled specific aspects of 9/11: an aircraft hijacking,
a plane crash, and an attack in the U.S. that leads to a wider
conflict, like the actual "war on terror."
One of these was a TV miniseries called [i]World War III[/i], which
would have been about "how an act of terrorism on United States soil
expanded into global conflict," according to the [i]Dallas Observer[/
i]. Bryce Zabel, a longtime television writer and producer, who was
elected as chairman of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in
August 2001, was working on this show. He was scheduled to meet with
executives at the cable channel USA Network on September 13, 2001, to
present the details of his miniseries to them.
Zabel consulted the U.S. military while working on the storyline for
[i]World War III[/i] and apparently considered scenarios resembling
the 9/11 attacks. He has recalled: "My partner and I had worked
carefully with the Air Force and some Pentagon war planners to figure
out the possible scenarios by which such a conflict [i.e. a world war]
could come into being. The irony is that we had sort of rejected
something as radical as what just happened [on September 11] as being
a little too much."
Zabel has not said what kind of terrorist attack he eventually decided
to incorporate into his storyline. But he noted a similarity between
what his show envisioned and what happened on September 11, saying the
9/11 attacks meant that "the cautionary tale we hoped to tell in
fiction ended up becoming a cautionary tale told on the evening
news." [31]
Zabel's miniseries was canceled in response to the 9/11 attacks. But,
possibly referring to the similarity between its storyline and the
"global war on terrorism" that began after 9/11, Zabel said, two weeks
after September 11, that [i]World War III[/i] would have "reflected
exactly what's going on in the world right now." [32]
[b]PLANNED MOVIE FEATURED CYBER-TERRORISTS CAUSING A JUMBO JET TO
CRASH IN NEW YORK[/b]
One movie that was in the pipeline on September 11, called [i]WW3.com[/
i], would have involved cyber-terrorists causing a Boeing 767--the
type of plane that hit the Twin Towers--to crash just a few miles from
the World Trade Center.
Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox had been working on [i]WW3.com[/i]
since 1998. The movie, according to [i]Variety[/i], would have
featured "a high-concept, special effects-laden storyline involving
cyber-terrorists who have declared war on the United States." [33] It
was written by David Marconi, who previously wrote [i]Enemy of the
State[/i], a 1998 thriller starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman.
Marconi said his screenplay for [i]WW3.com[/i] was "incredibly
prescient about the events of September 11." He described the
storyline as "a blueprint for disaster." Notably, the movie's climax
would have featured a Boeing 767 crashing into a Simon and Garfunkel
concert in New York's Central Park.
Marconi was assisted by experts from the National Security Agency
(NSA) while he was working on the screenplay. He has recalled that
these experts were "more than helpful in laying out situations not
dissimilar from what happened at the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon" on September 11. On the day of 9/11, one of them even phoned
Marconi and said to him: "Turn on the TV. It's happening." Marconi has
not said whether the scenario of a 767 crashing into Central Park was
suggested to him by someone at the NSA. [34]
In August 2000, it was reported that [i]WW3.com[/i] would be produced
by Luc Besson, the well-known French film writer, director, and
producer. [35] The film was shelved after 9/11, but the script was
rewritten and made into the fourth [i]Die Hard[/i] movie, [i]Live Free
or Die Hard[/i], which was released in 2007. [36]
[b]'TOP-SECRET' MOVIE FEATURED A PLANE HIJACKING[/b]
20th Century Fox also worked on [i]Deadline[/i], a movie that would
have involved an aircraft hijacking. Few details are known about this
film. It was, according to the [i]Los Angeles Times[/i], "in top-
secret development" before September 11. All that has been reported of
its storyline is that it featured terrorists hijacking a commercial
aircraft.
[i]Deadline[/i] was reportedly being produced by James Cameron, the
renowned director of movies such as [i]Titanic[/i] and [i]The
Terminator[/i]. It was written by brothers Peter and David Griffiths,
who also wrote [i]Collateral Damage[/i], a movie about terrorism
starring Arnold Schwarzenegger that was released in 2002. [37]
[i]Deadline[/i] was put on hold after 9/11. [38] It was revived in
2008, with the new name [i]Nagasaki Deadline[/i]. At that time,
[i]Variety[/i] reported that the storyline "centered on an emotionally
damaged FBI agent who must decipher historic events in a desperate
race to avert a terrorist plot." It is unclear if this was the
original storyline of the movie or if the plot was changed after
September 11. [39] Five years later, the movie has still not been
made.
[b]TV MOVIE WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED THE INVESTIGATION OF A PLANE CRASH
POSSIBLY CAUSED BY BIN LADEN[/b]
One production is notable because, although it did not feature a
terrorist attack, its storyline centered on the investigation of a
plane crash, just as the 9/11 attacks led to the investigations of
plane crashes. Furthermore, Osama bin Laden would have been mentioned
in it.
[i]Fall From the Sky[/i] was to have been a TV movie for CBS. Although
being made for television rather than cinema, it had a large budget,
of $7.2 million. [40] It was written by Nicholas Meyer--who previously
wrote several of the [i]Star Trek[/i] movies--and Brian Rehak, and
would have starred Forest Whitaker, the award-winning actor of such
movies as [i]Bird[/i] and [i]The Last King of Scotland[/i].
[i]Fall From the Sky[/i] would have told the story of the crash of a
new type of passenger aircraft in which hundreds of people die, and
the investigation that follows. Whitaker was to have played the
National Transportation Safety Board official who leads the
investigation. [41]
The storyline, according to the [i]Chicago Sun-Times[/i], looked at
"the meticulous process of gathering scientific evidence after the
tragedy." [42] It also "dealt a lot with the [Federal Aviation
Administration] and issues of concealment," Whitaker said. [43] The TV
movie, according to Meyer, would show "the political pressures brought
to bear on the investigation." [44]
Furthermore, the storyline included investigators examining the theory
that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the crash. [45] According to
Meyer, it would transpire that terrorists were not to blame.
Filming was scheduled to begin in Winnipeg, Canada, around the start
of October 2001 and the TV movie was in preproduction in September
that year. [46] However, CBS canceled [i]Fall From the Sky[/i] shortly
after 9/11. [47]
[b]THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND THE ENTERTAINMENT
INDUSTRY[/b]
The fact that these movies and television shows were in production at
the time of the 9/11 attacks, at the very least, disproves official
claims that no one could have predicted what happened on September 11.
What we know of the storylines of these productions shows that some
scriptwriters, and people working for government agencies who assisted
them, did indeed envision scenarios resembling the 9/11 attacks. The
storylines are also evidence that some individuals may have had
foreknowledge of the attacks--a possibility that should certainly be
investigated.
It is also plausible that these movies and TV shows served a more
disturbing purpose. Might, for example, rogue individuals working for
U.S. government agencies have used a particular film or television
show as a cover, to help them prepare the 9/11 attacks?
When considering this possibility, it is worth noting that there has
been a long history of collaboration between government agencies and
the entertainment industry. Former CIA officer Robert Baer described
this relationship, saying, "All these people that run [film] studios,
they go to Washington, they hang around with senators, they hang
around with CIA directors, and everybody's on board." [48]
Furthermore, government agencies have, for many years, employed
entertainment liaison officers to influence the image of them
portrayed in the media. The FBI set up an office in the 1930s to
improve its image in movies, radio programs, and television shows. The
Department of Defense established a similar office in 1947.
The CIA was the last major government agency to establish a formal
relationship with the movie industry. It set up a basic entertainment
program in the early 1990s and employed its first entertainment
liaison officer in 1996. Other agencies, such as the Department of
Homeland Security and the Secret Service, similarly have motion
picture and television offices or employ official assistants to the
media. [49]
The CIA and the military have cooperated on numerous Hollywood
productions. The Pentagon provided its "full cooperation" for movies
such as [i]Top Gun[/i] (1986), [i]True Lies[/i] (1994), [i]Air Force
One[/i] (1997), [i]Transformers[/i] (2007), and [i]Iron Man[/i]
(2008). [50] And the CIA helped shape such movies as [i]Enemy of the
State[/i] (1998), [i]Bad Company[/i] (2002), [i]The Sum of All Fears[/
i] (2002), and [i]The Recruit[/i] (2003). [51]
[b]THE CIA'S 'VERY ACTIVE' NETWORK IN HOLLYWOOD[/b]
Although it only employed its first liaison to the entertainment
industry in 1996, the CIA has been working with Hollywood since the
1950s. [52] Jerry Naylor, a country singer and veteran of the
entertainment business, revealed that he was first recruited by the
agency in 1968, and subsequently "used his international fame as cover
to work as a secret agent for the CIA" on more than 100 occasions.
Naylor believes other celebrities must have similarly been employed by
the agency. "I think using celebrities from Los Angeles and Hollywood
for covert operations is probably something that the CIA liked to do,"
he said. "I doubt I was the only one." [53]
Furthermore, retired CIA intelligence officer Antonio Mendez (who was
played by Ben Affleck in the movie [i]Argo[/i]) wrote that when he was
head of the agency's disguise section, between 1974 and 1979, he
"engaged the services of many consultants in the entertainment
industry." These included makeup artist John Chambers, who won an
honorary Academy Award for his work on the 1968 movie [i]Planet of the
Apes[/i]. [54]
John Rizzo, a senior CIA lawyer, stated in 2007 that the CIA has "a
very active" network of people in Hollywood, helping "in whatever way
they can to give back." [55]
[b]WHAT PURPOSE MIGHT 9/11-STYLE TV SHOWS AND MOVIES HAVE SERVED?[/b]
It is also worth noting that movies had, long before 2001, been used
as a cover for covert operations, so if this tactic was utilized by
those who planned 9/11, it would not have been the first time a movie
served such a purpose. For example, from 1978 to 1982, Jerry Naylor
worked on the research and production of a movie called [i]The Bounty
Hunter[/i], which, Naylor has claimed, was a cover for monitoring
terrorists in the Lebanon. [56]
A better known example of the tactic was the subject of the Oscar-
winning movie [i]Argo[/i]. On that occasion, the CIA helped rescue six
American embassy workers who were trapped in Iran during the 1979 to
1981 hostage crisis by disguising them as a Canadian film crew that
was supposedly scouting the country for shooting locations.
The team running the operation set up a fake production company called
Studio Six Productions, with offices in a suite on the old Columbia
Studio lot in Hollywood. The company soon announced its first supposed
production--a science-fiction movie called [i]Argo[/i]--and arranged
for full-page adverts in [i]Variety[/i] and the [i]Hollywood Reporter[/
i] to publicize it. Using the cover of the Hollywood production
company and the movie, the CIA was then able to get the six embassy
workers out of Iran.
Studio Six Productions appeared so convincing that by the time it
closed, several weeks after the rescue, it had received 26 scripts,
one of which was from Steven Spielberg. The Hollywood community only
learned about the deception behind the company and its planned movie
17 years later, when the CIA decided to go public with the story. [57]
[b]WERE 9/11-STYLE MOVIES AND TV SHOWS USED AS A COVER?[/b]
Seeing how movies had previously been successfully used as a cover for
covert operations, we can imagine how films and television shows with
plots resembling the events of September 11 might have served as a
cover for some of the preparations for the 9/11 attacks. For example,
a person working on one of these productions could have used their
position to obtain information that would otherwise have been
unavailable to them and might have been beneficial for planning 9/11.
Jackie Chan has revealed how his involvement in the movie
[i]Nosebleed[/i], about a terrorist plot to blow up the Twin Towers,
enabled him to learn about the World Trade Center buildings. "We had
visited the location before September 11," he said. "The producer. My
manager. We had dinner upstairs. We were getting all kinds of
information. I was going to play a window washer, so they were telling
me things like how many windows the building had.'' [58] In his
preparation for the movie, according to the [i]Orlando Sentinel[/i],
Chan learned the "secrets" of the Twin Towers, such as "how air
pressure was regulated with doors that might be useful as gags in one
of his trademark fights," and "which sides of the buildings one could
work on to avoid the wind." [59]
Considering the opportunities the movie thus provided, might
[i]Nosebleed[/i] have been used by someone who, while working on the
film, was secretly involved in planning 9/11 and using their work on
the movie as a cover, in order to find out information about the Twin
Towers? This person might, for example, have been able to learn about
security at the World Trade Center and the layout of the towers, which
would have been useful information for anyone who wanted to plant
explosives, so as to cause the buildings to collapse on September 11.
Since the movie [i]Till Death Do Us Part[/i], like [i]Nosebleed[/i],
would have featured "New York, the World Trade Center, and
terrorists," it seems plausible that a person involved in its
production could similarly have used their position to obtain
information about the WTC.
A production like the TV movie [i]Fall From the Sky[/i] could have
provided different opportunities for a person who was secretly helping
to plan the 9/11 attacks. Since [i]Fall From the Sky[/i] would have
been about a National Transportation Safety Board official and the
investigation of a plane crash, a person working on it might have been
able to obtain information that would be useful for covering up the
truth of what happened on September 11 in the aftermath of the
attacks.
They might have learned what kinds of investigations would follow the
plane crashes on September 11 and how the National Transportation
Safety Board would respond. Such information could have helped the
group planning 9/11 determine how to obstruct the investigations that
would follow the attacks.
[b]PRODUCTION TEAM LEARNED 'A LOT OF THINGS MOST PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW'[/
b]
The experiences of those who worked on NBC's miniseries [i]Terror[/i],
about a series of al-Qaeda attacks in New York, illustrate the many
opportunities a television show or movie about terrorism could create
for someone who wanted to gather information on the subject.
Those working on [i]Terror[/i] did a lot of research, particularly on
bioterrorism, for the miniseries. They talked to "top law enforcement
people on the state, federal, and local levels" about the subject,
according to Dick Wolf. [60] Neil Baer talked to experts at the Rand
Corporation think tank and hired a consultant from Stanford University
in California. [61]
Those involved with the miniseries also consulted experts at the
University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, Johns Hopkins
University in Maryland, and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in Georgia. At one point, Baer said, the FBI talked to
them, because their "accumulation of so much information raised a red
flag." Baer said that as a result of their research, "We knew a lot of
things most people didn't know, because we spoke with so many experts
all over the country." [62]
It is worth noting, however, that it would surely only require a small
number of complicit individuals for a movie or television series to be
used to help with planning the 9/11 attacks. In her book [i]The CIA in
Hollywood[/i], Tricia Jenkins noted that when the CIA wants to
influence a particular production, its involvement with that
production is "shadowy and difficult to trace, especially since its
interactions often take place only between two well-placed
individuals, either in person or over the phone." [63]
If a movie or TV show was serving as a cover for those planning the
9/11 attacks, most people involved with it would therefore,
presumably, have been unaware that they were being used by individuals
with murderous intentions, and would have just thought they were
working on a normal production.
[b]9/11-STYLE MOVIES AND TV SHOWS NEED FURTHER INVESTIGATION[/b]
The fact that numerous movies and television dramas with storylines
resembling the events of September 11 were in production at the time
of the 9/11 attacks is surely something that requires closer
examination, especially in light of the history of cooperation between
government agencies and the entertainment industry. And yet, after
receiving some attention in the aftermath of the attacks, these
productions have been largely forgotten.
There are numerous questions that could be considered as part of a new
investigation of 9/11. For example, which individuals came up with the
scenarios resembling aspects of the 9/11 attacks for the storylines of
these movies and TV shows? Some of the writers have said that
scenarios similar to what happened on September 11 were suggested to
them by employees of the NSA and the military. So who were those
employees and what exactly did they suggest?
Investigators could presumably discover more details of the plots of
the TV shows and movies, and obtain copies of the scripts. And it
would surely be worth researching whether other productions with
storylines resembling the 9/11 attacks were being worked on in
September 2001.
Inquiries may well reveal a different story behind the terrorist
attacks of September 11 than the official account we were led to
believe.
[b]NOTES[/b]
[1] David Gates, "Living a New Normal." [i]Newsweek[/i], October 7,
2001.
[2] Some news reports after September 11 claimed that the Statue of
Liberty or the Empire State Building was the terrorists' target in
[i]Nosebleed[/i]. However, these claims were likely incorrect, as all
reports before September 11 stated that the World Trade Center was the
target.
[3] Benedict Carver and Chris Petrikin, "NL Wins Chan by a
'Nose.'" [i]Variety[/i], February 7, 1999; Michael Fleming, "Financier
Gets Friendly to Forge Shingle." [i]Variety[/i], October 3, 2000; Jeff
Jensen and Benjamin Svetkey, "Script Check." [i]Entertainment Weekly[/
i], September 24, 2001.
[4] Benedict Carver and Chris Petrikin, "NL Wins Chan by a 'Nose'";
Jeff Jensen and Benjamin Svetkey, "Script Check."
[5] Jeff Jensen and Benjamin Svetkey, "Script Check"; J. Hoberman,
"All as it Had Been." [i]Village Voice[/i], December 4, 2001.
[6] Charles Lyons, "MGM Has Chan Plan." [i]Variety[/i], May 24, 2001.
[7] "May 26: In Brief and Casting News." [i]The Guardian[/i], May 26,
2000.
[8] "Late Script Kept Chan From Tragedy." ABC News, September 19,
2001; "Jackie's Great Escape." [i]Empire[/i], September 19, 2001.
[9] Dustin Klass, "Chan Changes Suits for 'Tuxedo.'" [i]Columbia
Chronicle[/i], September 23, 2002; Roger Moore, "Jackie Chan: Seeing
is Believing." [i]Orlando Sentinel[/i], September 27, 2002.
[10] "The Last Elevator." [i]Morning Edition[/i], NPR, September 11,
2003.
[11] "Late Script Kept Chan From Tragedy."
[12] Dustin Klass, "Chan Changes Suits for 'Tuxedo.'"
[13] "Late Script Kept Chan From Tragedy"; "Jackie's Great Escape";
"Late Script Saved Chan From New York Attack." [i]The Guardian[/i],
September 20, 2001.
[14] Roger Moore, "Jackie Chan: Seeing is Believing."
[15] Peter Keough, "Jackie Chan: State of the Art." [i]Boston Phoenix[/
i], September 26, 2002.
[16] J. Hoberman, "All as it Had Been"; Elise Craig, "Unlucky Breaks:
When Hollywood Gets Blindsided by Bad Timing." [i]Wired[/i], July 18,
2012.
[17] Duane Dudek, "Douglas: Escapism of Movies Still Has
Value." [i]Milwaukee Journal Sentinel[/i], September 27, 2001.
[18] Anita M. Busch and Beth Laski, "Hollywood Forced to do a Retake
on Fall Films." [i]Newsday[/i], September 13, 2001.
[19] Karen Butler, "Billy Crystal's Little Monsters." UPI, November 1,
2001.
[20] Michael Fleming, "'In-Laws' Redo Brews; 'Nam Calls
Mel." [i]Variety[/i], November 15, 2000; Zorianna Kit, "Fleming Eyes
'Death' Chair." [i]Hollywood Reporter[/i], January 11, 2002.
[21] Karen Butler, "Billy Crystal's Little Monsters."
[22] Lisa Schwarzbaum, "Movie Review: The In-Laws." [i]Entertainment
Weekly[/i], May 30, 2003; "Overview: The In-Laws (2003)." [i]New York
Times[/i], n.d.
[23] Bruce Fretts, "The 3rd Degree." [i]Entertainment Weekly[/i],
September 7, 2001; Michael Fleming, "'Terror' Tactics at
NBC." [i]Variety[/i], September 10, 2001.
[24] Diane K. Shah, "Brotherhood of the Wolf." [i]Los Angeles[/i],
April 2002; Gary Levin, "Plot Ideas Ripped From the Headlines." [i]USA
Today[/i], December 5, 2002.
[25] Michael Fleming, "'Terror' Tactics at NBC."
[26] Diane K. Shah, "Brotherhood of the Wolf."
[27] "Critical Issues in Writing About Bioterrorism." Hollywood,
Health & Society, April 2, 2002.
[28] Gary Levin, "Plot Ideas Ripped From the Headlines."
[29] Todd Leopold, "Real Life Overwhelms Fiction for 'SVU' Producer."
CNN, September 9, 2002.
[30] Michael Fleming, "Terrorism Projects Shelved; a Green
Bana?" [i]Variety[/i], September 17, 2001.
[31] Robert Wilonsky, "Amused to Death." [i]Dallas Observer[/i],
September 20, 2001; John Leland and Peter Marks, "New Look for
Entertainment in a Terror-Conscious World." [i]New York Times[/i],
September 24, 2001.
[32] David Everitt, "Pondering a New, Darker Mood for TV." [i]Media
Life[/i], September 25, 2001.
[33] Chris Petrikin, "Fox Eyes 'WW3.com' as Tentpole for
1999." [i]Variety[/i], January 26, 1998.
[34] "Did Screenplay Foreshadow September 11?" Fox News, June 3, 2002.
[35] Dana Harris, "Fox, Besson Prepare for Battle." [i]Variety[/i],
August 24, 2000.
[36] Andre Salles, "Batavians' Son Carving Career as Hollywood Script
Writer." [i]Aurora Beacon-News[/i], June 8, 2007; Manohla Dargis,
"Pick Your Poison: Fists or Fireballs." [i]New York Times[/i], June
27, 2007.
[37] Patrick Goldstein, "A Turn of Events, a Change in Plot." [i]Los
Angeles Times[/i], September 25, 2001; "Terror Target Tinseltown
Boosts Security, Patriotism." [i]Washington Times[/i], December 10,
2001; Kent Williams, "Scary Movies: Terrorism, Hollywood-
Style." [i]Baltimore City Paper[/i], January 2, 2002.
[38] J. Hoberman, "All as it Had Been."
[39] Dave McNary, "Martin Campbell to Direct 'Deadline.'" [i]Variety[/
i], November 11, 2008.
[40] "Film Cancellation a 'Good Call.'" [i]Winnipeg Free Press[/i],
March 22, 2002.
[41] "Entertainment Briefs." [i]Chicago Sun-Times[/i], August 20,
2001; Army Archerd, "Cooke Joins 'Freedom's Journey.'" [i]Variety[/i],
September 19, 2001.
[42] "Entertainment Briefs."
[43] "Film Cancellation a 'Good Call.'"
[44] Army Archerd, "Gotham Events Should Shine." [i]Variety[/i],
September 24, 2001.
[45] Duncan Campbell, "Film Chiefs Search for Softer Subjects." [i]The
Observer[/i], September 30, 2001.
[46] Army Archerd, "Cooke Joins 'Freedom's Journey'"; "Film
Cancellation a 'Good Call.'"
[47] Army Archerd, "Gotham Events Should Shine."
[48] Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham, "An Offer They Couldn't
Refuse." [i]The Guardian[/i], November 14, 2008.
[49] Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes
Film and Television[/i]. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012,
p. 1.
[50] Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham, "Lights, Camera ... Covert
Action: The Deep Politics of Hollywood." Global Research, January 21,
2009.
[51] Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in Hollywood[/i], p. 1.
[52] "The History of the CIA in Hollywood Movies." [i]The World[/i],
PRI, January 11, 2013.
[53] Simon Tomlinson, "Revealed: U.S. Country Star Jerry Naylor Who
Replaced Buddy Holly in the Crickets Was a Secret CIA Agent Who Spied
for America on 100 Missions." [i]Daily Mail[/i], April 24, 2013.
[54] Antonio J. Mendez, "A Classic Case of Deception." [i]Studies in
Intelligence[/i], Winter 1999–2000, p. 4; Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA
in Hollywood[/i], p. 9.
[55] Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in Hollywood[/i], p. 94.
[56] Simon Tomlinson, "Revealed: U.S. Country Star Jerry Naylor Who
Replaced Buddy Holly in the Crickets Was a Secret CIA Agent Who Spied
for America on 100 Missions."
[57] Antonio J. Mendez, "A Classic Case of Deception," pp. 1-16;
Joshuah Bearman, "How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue
Americans From Tehran." [i]Wired[/i], April 24, 2007; Tricia Jenkins,
[i]The CIA in Hollywood[/i], pp. 9-10, 96.
[58] Robert Denerstein, "Training Gives Chan Natural Kick." [i]Rocky
Mountain News[/i], September 28, 2002.
[59] Roger Moore, "Jackie Chan: Seeing is Believing."
[60] Michael Fleming, "'Terror' Tactics at NBC."
[61] Diane K. Shah, "Brotherhood of the Wolf."
[62] "Critical Issues in Writing About Bioterrorism."
[63] Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in Hollywood[/i], p. 69.
Allen Jasson
May 17, 2013, 10:44:13 PM5/17/13
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You know, just reflecting, for a team of 19 terrorists wanting to really do
their job, flying their planes, once successfully hijacked, into two towers
was far from ideal to their aims.
Just crashing these jets at a low altitude, obtuse angle approach at ground
level would have caused far more devastation, terror, shock and awe.
Just consider if even one of those planes had struck, even at the base of
the towers, at ground level. The likelihood of taking one of the towers down
in addition to wiping out several city blocks in NY would have been far
greater (even without thermite).
This also seems a significant piece of circumstantial evidence for an inside
job (I.e. a very precisely ring-fenced strike).
Further, on the logic of "ring-fencing" the strike, consider also that both
planes were centrally-aligned, direct hits; not so much as a wing-tip missed
the buildings.
A commercial airline pilot (of over 12,000 flying time including over 2,000
in jumbo jets) recently spoke at a truth event mentioning that it would be
extremely difficult to achieve this degree of lateral alignment at low
altitude and high speed.
A single wing (fuel tank) missing the building and separating as a
projectile to impact at ground level would have wiped out a city block and
(in New York's high population density) would have killed thousands.
Regards,
Allen
Intelligence[/i], Winter 1999-2000, p. 4; Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in
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their job, flying their planes, once successfully hijacked, into two towers
was far from ideal to their aims.
Just crashing these jets at a low altitude, obtuse angle approach at ground
level would have caused far more devastation, terror, shock and awe.
Just consider if even one of those planes had struck, even at the base of
the towers, at ground level. The likelihood of taking one of the towers down
in addition to wiping out several city blocks in NY would have been far
greater (even without thermite).
This also seems a significant piece of circumstantial evidence for an inside
job (I.e. a very precisely ring-fenced strike).
Further, on the logic of "ring-fencing" the strike, consider also that both
planes were centrally-aligned, direct hits; not so much as a wing-tip missed
the buildings.
A commercial airline pilot (of over 12,000 flying time including over 2,000
in jumbo jets) recently spoke at a truth event mentioning that it would be
extremely difficult to achieve this degree of lateral alignment at low
altitude and high speed.
A single wing (fuel tank) missing the building and separating as a
projectile to impact at ground level would have wiped out a city block and
(in New York's high population density) would have killed thousands.
Regards,
Allen
Hollywood[/i], p. 9.
[55] Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in Hollywood[/i], p. 94.
[56] Simon Tomlinson, "Revealed: U.S. Country Star Jerry Naylor Who Replaced
Buddy Holly in the Crickets Was a Secret CIA Agent Who Spied for America on
100 Missions."
[57] Antonio J. Mendez, "A Classic Case of Deception," pp. 1-16; Joshuah
Bearman, "How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From
Tehran." [i]Wired[/i], April 24, 2007; Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in
Hollywood[/i], pp. 9-10, 96.
[58] Robert Denerstein, "Training Gives Chan Natural Kick." [i]Rocky
Mountain News[/i], September 28, 2002.
[59] Roger Moore, "Jackie Chan: Seeing is Believing."
[60] Michael Fleming, "'Terror' Tactics at NBC."
[61] Diane K. Shah, "Brotherhood of the Wolf."
[62] "Critical Issues in Writing About Bioterrorism."
[63] Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in Hollywood[/i], p. 69.
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[55] Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in Hollywood[/i], p. 94.
[56] Simon Tomlinson, "Revealed: U.S. Country Star Jerry Naylor Who Replaced
Buddy Holly in the Crickets Was a Secret CIA Agent Who Spied for America on
100 Missions."
[57] Antonio J. Mendez, "A Classic Case of Deception," pp. 1-16; Joshuah
Bearman, "How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From
Tehran." [i]Wired[/i], April 24, 2007; Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in
Hollywood[/i], pp. 9-10, 96.
[58] Robert Denerstein, "Training Gives Chan Natural Kick." [i]Rocky
Mountain News[/i], September 28, 2002.
[59] Roger Moore, "Jackie Chan: Seeing is Believing."
[60] Michael Fleming, "'Terror' Tactics at NBC."
[61] Diane K. Shah, "Brotherhood of the Wolf."
[62] "Critical Issues in Writing About Bioterrorism."
[63] Tricia Jenkins, [i]The CIA in Hollywood[/i], p. 69.
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