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Nicolas Cage will star and Oliver Stone will direct a film based on the true story of two Port Authority police officers rescued from the collapsed World Trade Center towers in New York, Paramount Pictures announced Friday.
The untitled film will tell the story of John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno, the last men to be rescued from the towers after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Nearly four years after the attacks, Hollywood has finally begun to seriously consider projects on the attacks and its aftermath. The Paramount film is considered the first feature madeby a major Hollywood studio directly about the event.
In addition to the policemen's ordeal, the script focuses on their rescuers and their families as they attempted to find out what happened to the trapped men.
The studio described the film as ``a portrayal of how the humanspirit rose above the tragic events of that day.''
"I feel someone had to tell the story of the people who were inthe Trade Center before and after it collapsed," said McLoughlin, who will be portrayed by Cage.
"The people involved in putting this movie together are truly making an extraordinary attempt to tell those stories and the stories of those who are no longer with us," he said.
Jimeno, a now-retired Port Authority detective, said he hopes the film will help people "never to forget those that died from mydepartment, the Port Authority Police of New York/New Jersey, and those from my fellow departments."
"It will also be a tribute to all those that gave everything they had to bring people home to their loved ones," he said. "Thisfilm is also a testament to the good that we as human beings are capable of."
Stone called Andrea Berloff's screenplay "one of the best that's ever come to me out of the blue -- I guess like that day. It walloped me -- and many others -- with its emotion and simplicity.
"Clearly, it's a work of collective passion, a serious meditation on what happened, and carries within a compassion that heals," the Oscar-winning director said. Enditem
