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Paramount Dates Thriller ‘September 5’ About ’72 Munich Olympic Massacre For Awards Season
Paramount will open thriller 'September 5' about the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre on Nov. 27 in limited theaters before expanding off movie's heat at fall film festivals.
The movie, which stars Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch and John Magaro is described as being akin to Oscar Best Picture winner Argo, and follows the ABC Sports TV control booth and the ethical and nail-biting dilemma they faced in covering the first-televised act of terrorism when militant Palestinian terrorists aka Black September took the entire Israeli team hostage. Swiss-born director Tim Fehlbaum, worked off a script he co-wrote with German writer Moritz Binder, in what is a play-by-play scenario from the POV of those watching the tragedy unfold in front of a wall of TV monitors. Paramount has other contenders in their awards season mix including the Michael Gracey’s directed Robbie Williams biopic Better Man which stand at 86% fresh with Rotten Tomatoes critics after its Telluride and TIFF run.
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