Spielberg stays mum over spy film

[KiwiCoromandel]

Steven Spielberg, famed for Hollywood blockbusters, is keeping mum about his latest project, a dramatisation of tit-for-tat killings that followed the 1972 massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Palestinian guerrillas.

Such is the secrecy that even the Israeli spymasters who commanded the reprisals after the Munich Games have been left out in the cold.

Five retired Mossad agents, all of whom served in key intelligence posts during the hunt for Palestinian guerrilla chiefs in Europe and the Middle East to avenge the slaying of Israel's 11 sportsmen, voiced surprise at hearing of the film.

"I know nothing at all about this project," a former Mossad director who declined to be named told Reuters.

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[slum_goddess]

hmmpf, so that's where they got the pic from.

[KiwiCoromandel]

at your service slum..... :)

[slum_goddess]

thank youuuuuuuuu

[method77]

that's the most famous terrorist pic ever

[Ken]

Is that guy wearing a sock on his head?

[KiwiCoromandel]

As his latest film War of the Worlds sets records at the global box office, Hollywood director Steven Spielberg has revealed details of his next project.

He has already begun work on a film focusing on the aftermath of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.

Eric Bana has been cast as the lead Israeli secret agent, alongside fellow Australian Geoffrey Rush whose role is still to be revealed.

"Viewing Israel's response to Munich through the eyes of the men who were sent to avenge that tragedy adds a human dimension to a horrific episode that we usually think about only in political or military terms," Spielberg said in a statement out of the US.

"By experiencing how the implacable resolve of these men to succeed in their mission slowly gave way to troubling doubts about what they were doing, I think we can learn something important about the tragic standoff we find ourselves in today."

Spielberg has been working on the film, which is yet to receive a name is currently referred to as the Untitled 1972 Munich Olympics Project, for five years.

The film is currently in production in Malta with filming also taking place in Budapest and New York.

Source: AAP