Digby: Blinking Red Lights

Hey, guess what? Marc Platt, the producer of "PT9/11" knew over a year ago that he had hired a rightwing religious cultist to direct his movie:

POSTED ON 30/07/05

Sept. 11 miniseries shrouded in secrecy

Details of the plot are being hushed up to protect the film from copycats, executive producer says

GUY DIXON

The rumour mill is buzzing about an ABC miniseries currently being shot in Toronto about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Hollywood is only now daring to dramatize the 2001 events, and this six-hour miniseries, scheduled to air next spring, is one of a handful of Sept. 11 projects in the works. Yet, this production, which so far is being anonymously called the Untitled History Project, seems so unusually secretive that it is causing some in the industry to wonder if there are serious security concerns on set.