Though Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has gotten more buzz for its ill-placed ads and traumatic flashbacks than anything actually on screen, at least one person thinks that what the world really needs are more 9/11 movies. While introducing his film in Berlin (which he admits some thought was "too soon") director Stephen Daldry told reporters that he'd like to see more movies about the tragedy and its repercussions.
"It amazes me that more films aren't made about 9/11," the Billy Elliot director said. "I don't just mean the stories in New York, I mean stories from around the world about not just what happened and why it happened or who it happened to, but the consequences of what happened and how those consequences still reverberate in all our lives."
Luckily for those who felt the movie was extremely manipulative and incredibly premature, movie studios aren't likely to agree with Daldry. Not when even Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock couldn't push the movie out to a wider audience (the film's gross so far? $27,933,889). Sure, the movie got two Oscar noms, but those can at this point be pretty much bought with aggressive campaigns (see that Best Picture nom) and the Academy loves older actors (Max von Sydow). As far as 9/11 movies go, though, we'll totally make an exception for
