Filmmakers re-create rubble of ground zero on Westside

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Originally published Monday, December 19, 2005

Filmmakers re-create rubble of ground zero on Westside

Oliver Stone is directing a look at 9/11 that follows the events through the eyes of two police officers who were trapped beneath one of the towers.
By Kristin S. Agostoni
Daily Breeze

At the foot of the Westchester Bluffs along Jefferson Boulevard, scores of steel-like girders are propped up against stacks of massive cargo containers, while others lean and lie on their sides, poking out from piles of rubble.

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At ground level, movie makers are at work creating a 1-acre piece of ground zero for the upcoming World Trade Center movie by director Oliver Stone.

Scheduled for an August 2006 release, it is based on the true story of Port Authority police officers John McLoughlin and William Jimeno, who were trapped and later rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center collapse. The film stars Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena as McLoughlin and Jimeno, and Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal as their wives.

The historic hangar on the former Howard Hughes airfield is enormous enough and isolated enough from the bustle of Jefferson Boulevard for filming interior and exterior shots, said Michael Shamberg of Double Feature Films, who is producing the movie for Paramount Pictures with partner Stacey Sher.

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Far removed from New York, the Westside location made filming the sensitive project possible, Sher said. "(But) the gravity of what happened that day is felt every day on the set." A news release describes the movie as "a portrayal of how the human spirit rose above the tragic events of the day."

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