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‘September 5’: Read The Screenplay That Depicts The Munich Olympics Massacre From The POV Of Those Who Covered It Live
September 5, Paramount's gripping period thriller, is directed by Tim Fehlbaum, and written by Fehlbaum and Moritz Binder and co-writer Alex David.
The script keeps the POV of the ABC control room as events unfold, as producers and reporters and scramble to cover the fast-moving story with global implications — and sensitivities of the highest order — in real time, being the only TV network with live cameras filming the hostages’ location in the Olympic Village. The writers used first-hand accounts including of Geoffrey Mason, the ABC Sports coordinating producer who had been in Munich and helped drive the 22 consecutive hours of live coverage. The idea of the film’s focus on the broadcast more so than the political events unfolding before it, Fehlbaum says, ultimately is to raise questions “about the responsibilities and impacts of crisis reporting and our consumption of it.”
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