Question to all on this board.

[Deej]

 I think it'll probably happen. I also think it could be done well, if, as you said, it wasn't given the Pearl Harbor/Titanic treatment . I believe the films No Man's Land and Welcome to Sarjevo presented the tragic and horrible events surrounding the war in Bosnia fairly without being insulting or even having to use an Affleck. Could probably be done with 9/11.

[Funk, E.]

Not only is it inevitable there will be multiple versions, some sensationalistic, some with a specific socio/political agenda and some that seek the "dramatic element"

Most typically there will be at least one version that follows the lives of various otherwise unrelated characters to cover every facet of the event. From the perspective of the widow of a NYFD officer to the guys on the flight that went down in PA and at least one office worker in the WTC that survived the impact and collapse. Someone else will be just about to get married or have a new born babe for the tearjerking angle.

[Susan]

Who needs a 911 movie. We captured every moment of it on video.
Just another way to profit off of tragedy.

It'll happen, and it'll be a realy bad cbs miniseries

[Dano]

Who needs a 911 movie. We captured every moment of it on video.
Just another way to profit off of tragedy.
*****  That's not fair.  By that logic, nobody can make a movie about a real life tragic event without trying to "profit off of tragedy."  Was Spielberg profiting off tragedy when he made Schindler's List?  How about the people who made Cry Freedom about Steven Biko in Apartheid South Africa?  Were they just making a buck off a man's sacrifice?  Of course not.

September 11 comemorative plates (yes - I saw them advertised) are profiting off tragedy.  A film about that day MIGHT fall into that category if they did some quick job movie of the week with Powers Boothe and Tiffany Amber Thiessan... but a well made, thought provoking movie about it would be fine.