how many of you think katrina will be turned into a movie?

[xstarE_nitex]

how many of you think they will turn katrina into a movie...... I really hope they don't.... but I can just see it... and heard rumers of it... but its just that... rumors...

but if they do I just feel it would be in bad taste....

what do you guys think and feel?

[Chibi-Fallon]

They turned the Titanic into a movie didn't they? They made many many movies about various wars.
I mean it may take a while like that did, but I bet it will happen.

On the other hand they made a movie of Titanic because it's easy to romantizes, and wars have more... I don't know. Natural disasters seem different. Less interesting in a way from a cinematic point of view. I mean what's the plot going to be?

[Garnet]

Oh yes, before all the water is squeegeed away.

[xstarE_nitex]

They turned the Titanic into a movie didn't they? They made many many movies about various wars.
I mean it may take a while like that did, but I bet it will happen.

On the other hand they made a movie of Titanic because it's easy to romantizes, and wars have more... I don't know. Natural disasters seem different. Less interesting in a way from a cinematic point of view. I mean what's the plot going to be?

it would probrably be told from one familys point of view... or one persons point of view and theres this huge other story and then it happens.... hollywood has its ways...
I just see a huge money oppertunity for hollywood... and I just know they will do it...
and I guess also the question is ... do you think people would see it???

[PaganLibrarian]

It isn't out already?

[xstarE_nitex]

true... seems like the media is working for a golden globe... we need some coverage... but geez

[WynterWynd]

I would not doubt it becomes a movie. If not a 'hollywood' movie, at the very least a movie of the week:rolleyes:

[TaysatWesir]

I think it will become a movie. :rolleyes:

[Djiril]

Of course! It has everything:

First there's human interest. Then the levys breaking are a great opportunity for cool special effects. Plus there's the violence factor with all the looters, and I'm sure they can sneak some sex in somewhere, or at least a romance.

No offence to anyone effected by this disaster, but there's no way they're going to leave this one alone!

[Zoritsa_Nepenthe]

Oddly enough,there was a made for Tv movie out a while back(last winter maybe?for the life of me I can't remember the name now) about the devistating effects of a hurricane to hit the gulf coast.It went more into the effects on oil and gasoline prices rather then the devistation of land and human lives,but there's already been one made.

[Djiril]

Oddly enough,there was a made for Tv movie out a while back(last winter maybe?for the life of me I can't remember the name now) about the devistating effects of a hurricane to hit the gulf coast.It went more into the effects on oil and gasoline prices rather then the devistation of land and human lives,but there's already been one made.
They made a disaster movie about oil and gasoline prices? Was this supposed to be educational or informational?

[Zoritsa_Nepenthe]

They made a disaster movie about oil and gasoline prices? Was this supposed to be educational or informational?
Seemed more of "The day after tomorrow" type movie,though I'm sure they were hoping to get some sort of message out.It was erie though,because while the movie went way overboard on what could happen if recents events happened all at once,seeing and hearing people talk the way they are,reminded me of the movie.

[Wolf's Rain]

Sure they will. It'll fit right in there with Titanic, The Perfect Storm, Deep Impact, The Day After Tomarrow... and no doubt Life Time will find some way to work in their little drama aswell.

People will do anything for money. They have run out of their own ideas so they wait untill they can explote something like this, no matter how many innocents they hurt.

[Xander67]

I think they should!! This is one story that needs to be told....
People need to see what went on in that DisasterDome, they need to see what went on in the convention center...

Some of the stories that have been told already are just beyond words...

[Chibi-Fallon]

it would probrably be told from one familys point of view... or one persons point of view and theres this huge other story and then it happens.... hollywood has its ways...
I just see a huge money oppertunity for hollywood... and I just know they will do it...
and I guess also the question is ... do you think people would see it???

But then it would just be another War of the Worlds. Only with water not aliens. And water is even more boring then those aliens.
Look at Twister. What if they had made that about a real tornado. It just would have been weird.
If you're using a real event it has to be *about* that thing like Titanic. It has to play a role, otherwise what's the point of using that example?
If it takes on the sort of aura that the Titanic has/had then yes, otherwise no. Look at other huge natural disasters, no ones made movies about them.
There have been *general* movies about these sorts of things (I think ABC made a miniseries about something), but I just don't think Katrina is gonna have the mystery/excitement/whatever that's associated with events they make movies about.

[Chibi-Fallon]

I think they should!! This is one story that needs to be told....
People need to see what went on in that DisasterDome, they need to see what went on in the convention center...

Are you talking about like a documentary or a "based on a true story" type movie?
I feel that it has to be a documentary to be a successful real feeling movie, or inevitably it'll become so "Lifetime" that no ones gonna believe any of it was actually like that.
Unless it's done really really well. Especially if it's going to come out in the near future.

Frankly I would like to see maybe a documentary about it, but not a made-for-TV movie (because I don't think a major studio would touch it). And I agree that the stories need to be told. So let the people actually tell them.

[Chibi-Fallon]

Sure they will. It'll fit right in there with Titanic, The Perfect Storm, Deep Impact, The Day After Tomarrow...

Ummm, Deep Impact... don't they like send out a spaceship to blow up an asteroid headed towards Earth?

[Xander67]

Are you talking about like a documentary or a "based on a true story" type movie?
I feel that it has to be a documentary to be a successful real feeling movie, or inevitably it'll become so "Lifetime" that no ones gonna believe any of it was actually like that.
Unless it's done really really well. Especially if it's going to come out in the near future.

Frankly I would like to see maybe a documentary about it, but not a made-for-TV movie (because I don't think a major studio would touch it). And I agree that the stories need to be told. So let the people actually tell them.

whatever tells the story. A documentary style, like what was done with the Earthquake movie...

they need to show what our own government forced our own US American Citizens to endure after the storm.... there is food and power and water right in glendale LA, and the Troups would not let them out...

Also, there is another story to be told in Mississipi too...

and still 6 days later, people are still being rescued from thier homes in MIssissippi and LA.

[RhiannynWildseed]

The already is supposed to be a 4TV movie that was supposed to air here soon. Something about a Category 7 hurricane...but that was just a rumor, I think. Other than that, there has been:

Category 6: Day of Distruction (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428144/)