Variety: Imagine Ent. Making 9/11 Report Miniseries for NBC

[villager]

Imagine to steer NBC terror saga

NBC U pulling ahead in Commission Report race

By MICHAEL LEARMONTH

NEW YORK -- Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment has won the race to bring the 9/11 Commission Report to the small screen.

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Graham Yost, writer of "Boomtown"" and two episodes of "Band of Brothers," will write and exec produce. Howard, Grazer and Imagine TV prexy David Nevins will exec produce; no director has been set. Project could air as soon as next season, but could take longer given the size of the project.

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"It's going to do everything that the book does," Grazer said. "We just want to be nonpartisan about it and to dramatize in the best and most authentic way what we've learned from it."

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The book, written by commission members including former New Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean, former U.S. RepRep. Lee Hamilton and former Sen. Bob Kerrey, has been widely praised for its compelling narrative style. Unlike the Starr Report, which read like a tawdry legal brief, the 9/11 Commission's report is written like a novel, complete with storytelling scenes constructed from 1,200 interviews with survivors, government officials and safety personnel.

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Grazer said the series will start with the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and take the viewer through the currents in the Islamic world and intelligence failures that led to the terrorist attacks in 2001. "If you do it right, you're making an oral document for the world to see and you're not pointing fingers," Grazer said. "We will interview survivors and many people who were the government agencies that were involved."

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[NecessaryOnslaught]

1. Thats alot..

of bullshit and half truths to fit into a mini-series.

Of course the lambs have a short attention span, they won't mind if it is edited for content.

[krkaufman]

3. Or... perhaps now that the election is behind us...

... maybe they'll take the approach of Bob Kerrey post-election and be a bit more direct in their criticism. I hope the directors/screenwriters do some actual interviews with commission members, and maybe even Richard Clarke. (Would love to see Richard Clarke's name in the credits as "consultant." :) )

[villager]

4. that'd be great...

But let's see if GE "allows" it!

[booksenkatz]

2. I wonder if Jesus will be available to play *? nt