Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone to Direct Jawbreaker
According to Variety, Oliver Stone and Paramount Pictures have teamed up to create Jawbreaker, a film that will focus on America's response to 9/11 with the invasion of Afghanistan and hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Cyrus Nowrasteh, who wrote the controversial ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11, has been picked up to write a second draft of the screenplay.
Script is based in part on a memoir of the same name by Gary Bernsten, the CIA's pointman during the invasion, who coordinated the efforts of the CIA and Special Operations Forces to end Taliban rule.
Stone and Paramount bought the book months ago but kept it secret so that World Trade Center could open unencumbered. With the box office success of Stone's WTC, Paramount is now ready to move forward with the next step.
Though WTC and now Jawbreaker could be seen as political statements, Oliver Stone has assured moviegoers that having either story be a 'political film' would blind one to the story.
Though Jawbreaker is on Stone's to-do list, it has not been locked down as his next film.
Stay tuned for updates.
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