To follow up on a piece I published on Wednesday comes this from Variety: “Paramount has tapped Maggie Gyllenhaal and Maria Bello to portray the wives of Port Authority officers rescued from the World Trade Center in the studio’s untitled Oliver Stone project.” That project is about the heroics of some of the rescuers on September 11. Maggie Gyllenhaal, you’ll recall, is the actress who said we were “in some way responsible” for 9/11 (and then, fearing career suicide, apologized for it). Oliver Stone, you’ll recall, is the one who called 9/11 a “revolt” and suggested that if it hadn’t been a “revolt,” maybe it was a plot by multinational corporations.
I’d like to think this is funny, but you know what? It really isn’t. It’s a tiny bit like having David Irving and a bunch of Holocaust deniers make a film about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.