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20-08-05, 04:17 AM
Finally Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film has a title: “Munich.”
Spielberg has already commenced production that will shoot on location in various cities in Europe and in New York City.
DreamWorks and Universal, which are co-financing the movie, announced the name for the long-untitled thriller, which centers on the aftermath of the killings of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.
Eric Bana ("Troy") plays a Mossad agent who is charged with leading the band of secret Israeli specialists brought together for this operation, to assassinate 11 Palestinians suspected of planning the killings.
The international cast also includes Daniel Craig (Layer Cake), Geoffrey Rush (Shine), Mathieu Kassovitz (Birthday Girl), Hanns Zischler (Walk on Water) and Ciaran Hinds (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera).
“The attack at Munich by Black September and the Israeli response to it was a defining moment in the modern history of the Middle East,” Spielberg stated.
Universal Pictures will release the film in the United States and Canada on December 23, 2005; DreamWorks Pictures will handle international marketing and distribution.
Inspired by actual events, the narrative is based on a number of sources, including the recollections of some who participated in the events themselves.
Munich recounts the dramatic story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it.
Spielberg has been working on the film for five years. “Viewing Israel’s response to Munich through the eyes of the men who were sent to avenge that tragedy adds a human dimension to a horrific episode that we usually think about only in political or military terms,” Spielberg said in a statement.
“By experiencing how the implacable resolve of these men to succeed in their mission slowly gave way to troubling doubts about what they were doing, I think we can learn something important about the tragic stand-off we find ourselves in today.”
The script is the first feature film written by Tony Kushner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award and many other awards for his epochal Broadway drama “Angels in America” as well as its Emmy Award-winning adaptation for HBO. The film is produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, Spielberg and Colin Wilson.
Spielberg has already commenced production that will shoot on location in various cities in Europe and in New York City.
DreamWorks and Universal, which are co-financing the movie, announced the name for the long-untitled thriller, which centers on the aftermath of the killings of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.
Eric Bana ("Troy") plays a Mossad agent who is charged with leading the band of secret Israeli specialists brought together for this operation, to assassinate 11 Palestinians suspected of planning the killings.
The international cast also includes Daniel Craig (Layer Cake), Geoffrey Rush (Shine), Mathieu Kassovitz (Birthday Girl), Hanns Zischler (Walk on Water) and Ciaran Hinds (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera).
“The attack at Munich by Black September and the Israeli response to it was a defining moment in the modern history of the Middle East,” Spielberg stated.
Universal Pictures will release the film in the United States and Canada on December 23, 2005; DreamWorks Pictures will handle international marketing and distribution.
Inspired by actual events, the narrative is based on a number of sources, including the recollections of some who participated in the events themselves.
Munich recounts the dramatic story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it.
Spielberg has been working on the film for five years. “Viewing Israel’s response to Munich through the eyes of the men who were sent to avenge that tragedy adds a human dimension to a horrific episode that we usually think about only in political or military terms,” Spielberg said in a statement.
“By experiencing how the implacable resolve of these men to succeed in their mission slowly gave way to troubling doubts about what they were doing, I think we can learn something important about the tragic stand-off we find ourselves in today.”
The script is the first feature film written by Tony Kushner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award and many other awards for his epochal Broadway drama “Angels in America” as well as its Emmy Award-winning adaptation for HBO. The film is produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, Spielberg and Colin Wilson.