

But Lee didn’t want to explicitly address the attacks instead, he dexterously infused the city’s quiet, shaken mood into this 24-hour morality tale, contextualizing Monty’s decisions and self-reckoning with the visceral attitudes and imagery attached to that fateful day, like the Tribute in Light beams, FDNY memorials, and newspaper headlines. He’d written the book and the first several drafts of his script before the attacks, and “didn’t want to be involved with anything that might seem to be exploiting a tragedy that took thousands of lives,” he says in an email. Hell no.”Īt first, Benioff was skeptical of that plan. “I always felt art should reflect what's happening at the time. “This grieving, post-9/11 New York City could be a character in this film,” he thought. Moved by Monty’s regrets and reconciliations, and living in the aftermath of catastrophe, Lee began thinking bigger. In his final hours, he shares a steak dinner with his father (Brian Cox), meets his two best friends, Jacob and Frank (Phillip Seymour-Hoffman and Barry Pepper), and girlfriend Naturelle (Rosario Dawson) at a club for one last big night, and then ties up loose ends with his nefarious business partners. The film follows Monty Brogan (Edward Norton), an Upper East Side drug-dealer, on the day before he must report for a seven-year stint at an upstate penitentiary. In January of 2002, Lee had begun reading the script for what would eventually become his 14th film: 25th Hour, a drama that future Game of Thrones showrunner David Benioff had adapted from his novel published the previous year. “Like New Yorkers or Americans aren’t strong enough to see the image of the World Trade Center anymore, which I thought was fucking ridiculous. “Like it never existed,” Lee tells GQ over the phone. Deeds, as well as a trailer for the first Spider-Man. In the weeks and months following the the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Hollywood engaged in a comprehensive sanitization process, cutting out glimpses of the World Trade Center from upcoming New York-set movies like Zoolander and Mr.
BARRY PEPPER 25TH HOUR SERIES
The series is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios, Sheridan’s Bosque Ranch Productions, and Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon.Spike Lee felt insulted. Christina Voros will executive produce and direct five episodes.

Glasser, Oyelowo, Jessica Oyelowo, David Permut, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari and David Hutkin.

Sheridan executive produces along with Chad Feehan, David C. The series was first reported in September 2021 when Oyelowo signed an overall deal with Paramount (then ViacomCBS) and MTV Entertainment Studios under his Yoruba Saxon banner.

“Bass Reeves” is currently filming in Texas. He is repped by Untitled Entertainment, The Kohner Agency, and Sloane Offer. He was nominated in the same category in 2001 for “61*,” which was an HBO original film about Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle’s race to break Babe Ruth’s single season homerun record. Pepper is primarily known for his roles in films such as “Saving Private Ryan,” “The Green Mile,” “61*,” “Flags of Our Fathers,” “25th Hour,” and “We Were Soldiers.” In television, he played Bobby Kennedy in the 2011 miniseries “The Kennedys,” for which he won the Emmy Award for best lead actor in a miniseries or movie.
