Anyone who didn’t see this one coming should really get their eyes checked. Oliver Stone is considering a much more political to follow up World Trade Center.
Though he hasn’t finally picked a new film yet, he’s seriously mulling the idea of adapting Gary Bernsten’s Jawbreaker, a memoir of working for the CIA during the invasion of Afghanistan. But kept it quiet until WTC was out. He now has Cyrus Nowrasteh – who just caused waves of his own by littering US miniseries The Path To 9/11 with invented scenes – to rewrite an early draft of the script. Ralph Pezzullo, who co-wrote the original book, penned that first attempt.
Jawbreaker is critical of the Clinton administration and praises George W Bush’s handling of the invasion, but the famously anti-Bush Stone plans to focus on the book’s criticisms of the bureaucratic problems that also cropped up. "This will be partly about the ground war in Afghanistan, among other things," Stone told Variety. "We've been discreet because we didn't want World Trade Center to be affected unnecessarily by political bullshit about Afghanistan."
And he’s confident that Jawbreaker will be more about potent drama than soapbox politics. "It has the potential to be very exciting. There's a lot of action and a thriller element that we're still trying to bring out," Stone said. "I'm not looking to make a political movie, but it always seems to come down to that with me."