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UNITED 93
The story behind
the controversial new production recreating the fateful flight of
the fourth hijacked plane on 9/11
British writer-director Paul Greengrass, behind award- winning television films like Bloody Sunday, Omagh, andThe Murder of Stephen Lawrence now focuses his cameras on the day that changed the world forever. Says Greengrass: “There are lots of ways to find mean- ing in the events of 9/11. Television can convey events
as they happen. A reporter can write history’s rough first draft. Historians can widen the time frame and give us context.
“Filmmakers have a part to play, too, and I believe that some- times, if you look clearly and unflinchingly at a single event, you can find in its shape something much larger than the event itself; the DNA of our time. Hence a film about United 93.”
In Working Title’s United 93, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York last month, Greengrass creates a grip- ping, provocative drama that tells the story of the passengers, crew and the flight controllers who watched in dawning horror as United Airlines Flight 93 became the fourth hijacked plane on the day of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil.
The filmmaker explores the events of this day by chronicling in real time the story of a single flight and the ordinary, random sampling of flight crew, businessmen, wives, grandparents, stu- dents and others bound for San Francisco aboard a Boeing 757.
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