Cannes Audience Gets Taste of ‘World Trade Center’
According to the “Globe and Mail,” director Oliver Stone was greeted with a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday to preview 25 minutes from his new, controversial film, “World Trade Center” (opening Aug. 9).
The clip was from the beginning of the movie and preceded the 20th anniversary showing of his movie “Platoon” starring Charlie Sheen.
However, most of the audience left after “World Trade Center.”
“It’s the true story of two New York Port Authority policemen who were trapped in the rubble, their wives and their children, and the incredible and almost improbable rescue efforts that went on to save them,” Stone said, in his introduction to the clip.
“World Trade Center” is the second Hollywood film to be made about the 9/11 attacks, “United 93″ about the passengers aboard the flight that crashed into a Pennsylvania field, was released earlier this year.
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