Shaun
Apr 22 2004, 11:39 am
BBC News: Spielberg to film Olympic tragedyQUOTE
Director Steven Spielberg is to make a film about the kidnap and murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics.
Spielberg is looking to cast actor Sir Ben Kingsley in the drama, which will begin filming in June, a spokeswoman at his Dreamworks studio said.
The Israelis died after being taken hostage by Palestinian activists at the 1972 summer games in Munich.
Anyone fancy trying to be an extra. I don't think that my waistline and athletic ability would qualify!
Tallicame
Apr 22 2004, 11:45 am
The version I read had him dealing with the aftermath as opposed to the actual event.
Empire Movie Magazine - The 'Berg Just Got BusierThen again, I could just be intrepretting that wrong, I still haven't had my full quota of coffee for the morning.
I saw the documentary
One Day in September the other night which was about the kidnapping. I never really knew the full story of the whole fiasco but after watching that program it is all too vivid. It will be interesting to see how Spielberg will present the same story.
Shaun
Apr 22 2004, 1:50 pm
If you get the chance to read the book of the same name, its amazing how much more detail there is about what happened in the repercussions following the Siege and events leading right up to the end of the nineties. (it might be these events that he's making the film about??)
juanteje
May 1 2004, 8:53 pm
Tallicame
Jun 12 2004, 11:11 am
I found a little more information on this...
Empire Online: Spielberg Flies The Olympic BanaQUOTE
The ineffable rise and rise of Eric Bana continues, with no signs of stopping.
Bana - who was the best thing about Troy, The Hulk, Black Hawk Down and just about everything he's been in, quite frankly - has signed on to star in Steven Spielberg's untitled drama about the 1972 Munich Olympics.
There's no firm word yet on Bana's role in the movie, which dramatises the shocking events of those Olympics, when five Arab terrorists launched an attack on the event, which left eleven Israelis - many of whom were athletes - dead. That attack was documented in the Oscar-winning film by Kevin MacDonald, One Day in September.
Sir Ben Kingsley was set to co-star in the movie, but may have to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. Meanwhile, Spielberg is actively casting for other actors, with more announcements due soon.
Spielberg plans to start shooting the drama across Europe over the next six weeks. Chances are, given his reputation for prodigious shooting speed, he'll be finished before the Olympics arenas in Athens are actually complete...
Chalmondley Warner
Aug 4 2004, 1:02 pm
From Ananova:
Spielberg Film On Hold Amid Terror FearsQUOTE
Steven Spielberg has postponed his latest film project amid fears that the production could be targeted by terrorists.
Vengeance is about the hunt for the Palestinian terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich
The sensitive subject matter and the current political climate has led the director to put the production on hold.
Actor Sir Ben Kingsley has been forced to drop out because of the delay.
Eric Bana, who played Hector in Troy, heads the remaining list of stars who have signed up for the movie.
So we now know the film will be called
Vengeance. But it's still not clear if any of the movie was actually going to be filmed in Munich. Is it? There was mention of a "European location", but not actually Munich.
flogger
Aug 4 2004, 1:37 pm
would imagine if filmed in europe, it would be somewhere in eastern europe as that's all the rage these days..ie prague
beautiful place and costs kept down to a minimum as a result.
bargain.
that documentary one day in september was really gripping stuff and the naivety of the german gov/police back then astounding.
at least now they do have some 'special forces' and not fat pc plod off the street sent to some serious sniping @ fuerstenfeldbrueck during his breaktime.
Showem
Aug 4 2004, 2:16 pm
IMDB lists the filming location for Vengeance as Wroclaw, Poland. But I would imagine they will have to at least throw in some stock footage from Munich, as that spiderweb roof will be tough to copy.
Don't underestimate the power of CGI. Those spiderweb roofs can be fully computer generated
latecomer
Aug 4 2004, 10:02 pm
what's the point of making a movie about this? that documentary tells you what happened, all the screw ups, the dodgy way the german govt dealt with the aftermath. what can spielberg add to that?
Showem
Aug 5 2004, 6:32 am
Yeah, I guess they should have thought the same when they made all those WW2 movies. Everybody knows how it ended.
They make it because people will watch it, don't be obtuse.
Chalmondley Warner
Aug 7 2004, 6:19 am
Another update:
FilmForce: Spielberg Soldiers OnQUOTE
Steven Speilberg's spokesman, Marvin Levy, has refuted recent reports that the movie had been delayed over terrorism concerns. He says that it was Speilberg's insistence on perfecting the script which has caused production to miss it's June start date.
The film details how Mossad (the Israeli secret service) hunted down the Palestinian terrorists who murdered eleven Israeli athletes. Eric Bana will star as a Mossad agent.
Furthermore, the project isn't necessarily going to be called
Vengeance, although DreamWorks owns the screen rights to George Jonas' 1984 book
Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team. This book was previously adapted as the 1986 TV movie Sword of Gideon.
SpielbergFilms.com is referring to the Spielberg's new project as
Mossad.
So the film might be called Vengeance, or Mossad, or maybe something else.
The film is indeed about the aftermath. Which means the story wasn't covered by the documentary "One day in September" and the production doesn't need to be done in Munich. So no jobs going here as extras then.
Random Steven Speilberg pic.
Chalmondley Warner
Aug 12 2004, 5:55 am
A third update...
Filming now won't begin until June 2005. The script is being rewritten.
From
comingsoon.net - Kushner Rewriting Spielberg's Olympics DramaQUOTE
Forrest Gump writer Eric Roth wrote the original draft, with some rewriting done by Charles Randolph. But the director, Steven Spielberg, wasn't satisfied and Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner has been drafted in to do a complete rewrite.
Malcolm Spudbury
Feb 16 2005, 9:04 am
Another update:
Spielberg Fast-Tracks Munich Olympics FilmQUOTE
Steven Spielberg plans a summer start for his delayed movie about the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and a December 23 release in theaters.
AquaticMeringue
Feb 16 2005, 2:40 pm
QUOTE (latecomer @ Aug 4 2004, 10:02 PM)
what's the point of making a movie about this? that documentary tells you what happened
Since when were movies about 'what happened'?
robbieinmunich
Feb 16 2005, 3:05 pm
QUOTE (Tallicame @ Jun 12 2004, 11:11 AM)
A pro po Eric Bana. Hes really a comedian. He started on the Comedy Company (or Fast Forward) two very funny commedy shows in Australia. I met him before he left Australia at a doo we were both at. A naturally typically funny guy...
Moonboot
Feb 16 2005, 3:11 pm
have you seen the film ´My Castle´ (think it was called that) with Bana in it´s double funny.
ooh and he was hot in Troy...he well out-hotted girly Brad.
Topsy
Jul 10 2005, 2:50 pm
an article from today's observer about the filmit's still scheduled to come out just before christmas, filming is going on right now
Editor Bob
Jul 26 2005, 8:37 am
The film title has been announced.
It will be called, simply, "Munich".
No filming will take place in Munich though. Instead all filming is in Malta, Budapest, and New York, see:
IMDB - Locations.
More info:
Yahoo! News - Steven Spielberg Historical Thriller: 'Munich'QUOTE
Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures jointly announced today that the upcoming film being directed by three-time Academy Award®-winning director-producer Steven Spielberg will be titled "Munich."
"Munich" is an historical thriller set in the aftermath of the 1972 massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. Universal Pictures will release the film in the United States and Canada on December 23, 2005
Incidently, see also:
Munich Olympic Terror - modern day photos of the location in Munich where these events took place.
Jules Winnfield
Jul 26 2005, 9:14 am
Is it me or is associating a city's name with a movie about a terrorist incident a bad idea?
Blimeygirl
Jul 26 2005, 9:18 am
How about the fact that they are not filming 'Munich' in Munich?
MoiLV
Jul 26 2005, 9:56 am
That's really lame. I'm sure none of the students in Olympiadorf would mind if they filmed around there..
Plus I wanna be an extra.
The documentary was really good. I didn't know anything about that incident before I'd seen it.. just like the rest of America
Showem
Jul 26 2005, 10:04 am
I'm sure they aren't filming in Munich due to expense. Budapest and Malta are cheaper.
Jimbo
Jul 26 2005, 10:13 am
I thought it was about the Mossad hunt to kill the terrorists after it all took place? I doubt many of them hung about for Wies'n...
boomtown_rat
Jul 26 2005, 10:19 am
QUOTE
I thought it was about the Mossad hunt to kill the terrorists after it all took place?
indeed, someone mentioned earlier it was about the aftermath.
Although I though it had all been covered rather well in 'one day in september'
Jimbo
Jul 26 2005, 10:22 am
Which explains why it's not set in Munich although it is called Munich.
MoiLV
Jul 26 2005, 10:25 am
Wasn't there some strange story that the German government tried to get the terrorists out of Germany and back to their country so that they wouldn't have to deal with the whole situation? Something about a hostage-taking on a pretty-empty 747 with no women or children in exchange for the prisoners??
cinzia
Jul 26 2005, 10:29 am
To those of you who have said you want to be extras, I've been one and it's boring, boring, boring. I was on set for "I Love Trouble" (Nick Nolte/Julia Roberts) in the Wisconsin State Capitol building for probably 14 hours one day and made maybe $50 after taxes and kick-back to the casting company. Plus free lunch. A LOT of hanging around, and the initial excitement of being in the same room with Hollywood stars wears off pretty quickly. And I actually lost money because I had to take the day off work.
So you're not really missing out to the Poles, if that's any consolation.
tench
Jul 26 2005, 10:34 am
QUOTE (cinzia @ Jul 26 2005, 11:29 am)
So you're not really missing out to the Poles, if that's any consolation.
Are there many polish people in Malta or Budapest?
boomtown_rat
Jul 26 2005, 10:37 am
QUOTE (MoiLV @ Jul 26 2005, 11:25 am)
Wasn't there some strange story that the German government tried to get the terrorists out of Germany and back to their country so that they wouldn't have to deal with the whole situation? Something about a hostage-taking on a pretty-empty 747 with no women or children in exchange for the prisoners??
yep, pretty much - as I said, check out 'one day in september'
Jimbo
Jul 26 2005, 10:54 am
QUOTE
Are there many polish people in Malta or Budapest?
Do a poll and we can find out.
cinzia
Jul 26 2005, 11:10 am
Oops, sorry, thought I'd read earlier in the thread that filming would be done partly in Poland. Couldn't be bothered to go back and check it, though.
Do the Pole poll if you want, though!
Jules Winnfield
Jul 26 2005, 11:13 am
Someone suggested they call it The Hunt for Black September on IMDB!
Here is the
link by the way.
Jimbo
Jul 26 2005, 11:18 am
Followed by the sequel 'The Hunt for White Christmas' I suppose?
SleeplessInMunich
Jul 26 2005, 1:16 pm
There was a film about this already called "The 11th commandment".
SleeplessInMunich
Jul 26 2005, 2:44 pm
Okay, just found the film. It was called "
Sword of Gideon" in America. I knew it as the 11th commandment. It was a TV movie about the hunt for the terrorists after the the 1972 Munich games.
MarcusBlair
Jul 31 2005, 1:53 am
The Spielberg film about the 1972 event will focus on the aftermath from what I heard. The title of the film is going to be "Munich", surprised? Its scheduled to be in theaters this Christmas season. Eric Bana's role is supposed to be of a Mossad agent assigned to track down the Palestinian terrorists responsible for the Olympic Park Massacre during the Munich Olympics.
toblerone
Jul 31 2005, 3:16 am
The assassination campaign of all Arab/Palestinians who contributed to the Munich massacre was called: Operation Wrath of God.
It continued for over 20 years and almost every Muslim involved in the attack (and even some who were not) was systematically located and eliminated by Mossad agents throughout Europe and the Middle East. A few survived however...
More tea, Vicar?
Aug 4 2005, 3:36 pm
QUOTE (toblerone @ Jul 31 2005, 4:16 am)
A few survived however...[
Damn. Mossad getting sloppy.
interplanetjanet
Dec 10 2005, 6:28 am
In theaters on Dec. 23rd here. Anyone know when it plays in Germany?
Topsy
Dec 10 2005, 8:02 am
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