Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Beslan school hostage tragedy to be a movie

This makes me more than a bit queasy: Brian Grazer (Ron Howard's partner and the producing force behind Apollo 13 and a ton of other great movies) has optioned an Esquire magazine story called "The School", about the Beslan school hostage tragedy.

You remember this one: 30+ Chechan terrorists took over 1,100 hostages - young children and their parents - on the first day of school in the Caucus town of Beslan. Russian troops stormed the school (before or after the terrorists started setting off bombs - no one is sure on the timing) and over 300 hostages and most of the terrorists were killed.

This makes for an important book (or article), but I don't think we need to see this on the big screen. It's hard to imagine how it's going to be done "tastefully".

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