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"This is neither an excuse for American patriotism nor a sentimental fluff piece. Greengrass spent months researching the story, speaking with the victims’ families, interviewing everyone from air traffic controllers to the army personnel, and writing a general treatment."

Right up there with “how did it feel to win the Oscar?” is the ever annoying question “so whatcha gonna do next?”. For the longest time, the standard Paul Haggis answer would have been Against All Enemies, but it now appears that 9/11 question will be replaced by a war drama set in Baghdad.

"Art never comes from happiness." So says Victor Mancini’s mother just a few pages into Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Choke". Victor is a deeply disturbed medical school dropout, with sex addiction problems and a severely unhealthy relationship with his mother. By day he works at a colonial era styled theme park playing an Irish indentured servant, and by night he trolls sex-addict meetings….to get dates. His mother’s history of melodramatic parenting has ended her in a care home suffering from Alzheimer’s and left Victor so attention starved that he deliberately chokes on food in restaurants in order to get “hugged” (via the Heimlich maneuver). Sound like the making of a great movie? Well Universal Pictures apparently thinks so.