9/11 terror hits big screen

A scene from the film

And though the movie was shot months ago, it corresponds remarkably to the flight recording of the passenger uprising that was played for the first time publicly April 12 during the death-penalty trial of convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.

"Is it word-for-word the same? No, of course it's not," says writer/director Paul Greengrass, who relied on interviews with family members, telephone operators and government investigators for his screenplay.

Greengrass says his movie, which opens April 28, is a memorial of sorts, attempting to fill in the unseen details about the plane that, because of a passenger revolt against the hijackers, crashed in a Pennsylvania field instead of into a presumed target in Washington.

But are people ready for the movie?

Though many of the Flight 93 families support the movie, a big test will be its reception at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it premieres Tuesday in the neighborhood where the World Trade Center once stood.

Source: USA TODAY