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Spielberg Tackles Terrorism
Just when we're awaiting his next blockbuster offering, this summer's War of the Worlds remake, Steven Spielberg goes and gets serious again.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
For his next project, the Oscar-winning director has decided to tackle the thorny issue of terrorism, announcing that he will start work this summer on an as-yet untitled Universal Pictures drama about the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The film was initially slated to be in the works by now, but Spielberg temporarily shelved it after Tom Cruise became available and the two agreed to ramp up production on War of the Worlds, which began filming in November.
The delay gave Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner more time to polish the script, which was originally written by Forrest Gump's Eric Roth and Charles Randolph, who wrote the upcoming thriller The Interpreter.
The story reportedly is based on the account of a former agent of the Mossad--Israel's intelligence agency--of the day five Arab terrorists calling themselves Black September stormed the Olympic Village and took 11 Israeli athletes hostage.
The hostages were killed during a botched rescue operation by German authorities. Police captured three of the terrorists alive, but they were released after Palestinian terrorists hijacked a Lufthansa flight and traded their hostages for the jailed Olympic plotters.
The tragedy led to Israel's creation of the Mossad, whose agents hunted down and killed many of those responsible for the Munich incident.
If all goes according to schedule, Universal will release what sounds like Spielberg's latest Academy Award gambit on Dec. 23 in theaters. While that date will qualify the film for next year's Oscars, it will likely face some stiff competition at the box office.
On Dec. 14, Universal plans to unleash Peter Jackson's eagerly awaited update of the 1933 classic King Kong, followed by the movie version of Mel Brooks' Tony-winning hit musical, The Producers.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict isn't the only weighty subject matter Spielberg is bringing to the big screen. The helmer has asked Schindler's List star Liam Neeson to play Abraham Lincoln in an epic biopic of the late President who held the Union together during the Civil War. That film will likely begin production sometime early next year.
Also in the offing is a fourth Indiana Jones movie Spielberg and pal George Lucas have long promised. The sequel is currently getting a rewrite.
First up, though, is War of the Worlds, which is set to invade movie theaters on June 29, just in time for the Fourth of July holiday.
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