Wednesday 11 October 2017

“The case against him was just laughable”

[What follows is excerpted from an article published today on the website of the United Arab Emirates newspaper The National:]

Irish film director Jim Sheridan has a pointed message for aspiring Arab film makers: stop chasing Hollywood. “Every director I’ve met in the Arab cinema world wants to go to Hollywood and make a Hollywood movie, because that’s how you pass the test apparently,” he says when I catch him on the sidelines of this year’s Dublin Arabic Film Festival, where he acts as president and curator. “It’s nonsense. Every time I go to America to make a Hollywood movie, I realise I didn’t grow up in America. I didn’t go to school there. I don’t know their system.” (...)

The director, who was a judge at Dubai International Film Festival in 2013, speaks from a position of some experience when it comes to making films outside the Hollywood mainstream. While his European films, including the multi-Oscar-nominated, and winning, My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, have gathered accolades that most directors can only dream of, his most famous Hollywood effort was the critically derided 50 Cent biopic Get Rich or Die Tryin’. (...)

Sheridan’s own next project looks set to have a regional theme too. He is currently in the early stages of developing a film about the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, the imprisoned Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
“Megrahi’s story is so interesting. If he’d been European, or even just a bit whiter, he’d have been out a long time ago. The case against him was just laughable, but three judges found him guilty. These were the same people that were involved in convicting the Guildford Four,” the director explains. Sheridan’s seven-time Oscar nominated 1994 film, In the Name of the Father, was a biopic of the four men who were wrongly imprisoned as IRA terrorists.

5 comments:

  1. A very clever man. He has made the connection. Megrahi and Libya were framed for the lockerbie bombing. Will they ever get justice. I very much doubt it while the case remains in Britain.

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  2. Dossier Lockerbie, 2017:
    Lockerbie film in development ... The target is the exoneration of Libya and and to honour of Abdelbaset al Megrahi. One of the largest evidence of fraud, started at the end of 20th century, on December 31st, 2000, with a questionable court verdict !

    Film End ... A chief witness for defence will uncover, with help of the Scottish Police "Operation SANDWOOD", one of the most complicated evidence fraud > known as the "Lockerbie Affair -PanAm 103" > highly interesting.

    by Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd Telecommunication Switzerland. Webpage: www.lockerbie.ch and https://www.facebook.com/edwin.bollier

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    1. Good for you Edwin. Their "Lordships" won't like your film. Perhaps if the Libyan people ever get compensation for the massive injustice done to them plus the jailing of the cabal of crooks who were involved in the Lockerbie deception Scotland may once again hold its head up on the world stage as a country who was capable of purging the rotten apples which were rife in its government administration.

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  3. I attended the whole trial except one week. My 19 year old daughter was on the plane. Within three months it was clear that this trial was not an honest attempt to find the truth.

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    1. John Mosey you summed the whole lockerbie affair up perfectly with just a few words. Washington leaned on Westminster who leaned on Holyrood and then i told you who leaned on Washington (Standard Oil New Jersey)aka Big Oil.Now we know who is behind it all and why "they" are so desperate to hide the truth.

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