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Fox 2000 making 'One Minute To Midnight'
Published Monday, Jul 14 2008, 12:09 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Fox 2000 has picked up the movie rights to Michael Dobbs's book One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev And Castro On The Brink Of Nuclear War.
The film will focus on a US aircraft pilot who inadvertently flies into the Soviet Union at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The recent Kevin Costner film Thirteen Days also explored the tense confrontation between the Americans and Russians during the Cold War.
John Davis, who will serve as a producer on the film, discussed the project with Variety: "Buried in that book is this white-knuckle four-hour flight that frames out the most dangerous moment in the history of the world. As Fidel Castro was trying to convince Khrushchev to let these missiles fly, this pilot is [initially] unaware he's flown off course.
"The Soviets think they're being attacked and get their bombers up to 50,000 feet. The plane [is about to run] out of gas, and this pilot has to get out of the Soviet Union before his plane drops down to where those Soviet planes are waiting for him."
The film will focus on a US aircraft pilot who inadvertently flies into the Soviet Union at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The recent Kevin Costner film Thirteen Days also explored the tense confrontation between the Americans and Russians during the Cold War.
John Davis, who will serve as a producer on the film, discussed the project with Variety: "Buried in that book is this white-knuckle four-hour flight that frames out the most dangerous moment in the history of the world. As Fidel Castro was trying to convince Khrushchev to let these missiles fly, this pilot is [initially] unaware he's flown off course.
"The Soviets think they're being attacked and get their bombers up to 50,000 feet. The plane [is about to run] out of gas, and this pilot has to get out of the Soviet Union before his plane drops down to where those Soviet planes are waiting for him."
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