A warts-and-all history of Greenpeace full of colorful characters and beset by twists and surprises. An inspiring, even exhilarating tribute. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Bob Hunter was a Canadian newspaper columnist in Vancouver who, in 1971, decided that the best way to protest a planned U.S. nuke test in the Aleutian islands was to sail a boat into the blast zone and dare Nixon to blow up the bomb anyway. The rickety boat he and his friends hired — which the U.S. navy couldn’t stop in international waters unless they wanted to commit an act of piracy — was renamed Green Peace… and the modern environmental movement was born. Using an amazing trove of archival film from the organization’s early days, documentarian Jerry Rothwell (Donor Unknown) has assembled a warts-and-all history of Greenpeace,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Bob Hunter was a Canadian newspaper columnist in Vancouver who, in 1971, decided that the best way to protest a planned U.S. nuke test in the Aleutian islands was to sail a boat into the blast zone and dare Nixon to blow up the bomb anyway. The rickety boat he and his friends hired — which the U.S. navy couldn’t stop in international waters unless they wanted to commit an act of piracy — was renamed Green Peace… and the modern environmental movement was born. Using an amazing trove of archival film from the organization’s early days, documentarian Jerry Rothwell (Donor Unknown) has assembled a warts-and-all history of Greenpeace,...
- 9/15/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
For being just a brief 4 days, True/False is a densely packed festival, and I mean that in the true celebratory sense, full of not just film screenings, but parades and parties, street bound buskers, live game shows, filmmaking workshops and what-have-you, and it’s all condensed down into a vibrant, but relatively small college town. Everything is within a 10 minute walk. And where else might you walk two blocks and in the process subsequently encounter the likes of Joshua Oppenheimer, Alex Gibney, Nick Broomfield and the Ross Brothers? Paul Sturtz and David Wilson, the founders of True/False have created something truly special here in Columbia, Mo – a glorious celebration of non-fiction filmmaking and the fascinating fault line that separates the unreal from the untruthful.
Interestingly, Alex Gibney’s latest feature peddles only truth, but deals with the murky myths of a science fiction pseudo-religion. Based on Lawrence Wright’s exposé of Scientology,...
Interestingly, Alex Gibney’s latest feature peddles only truth, but deals with the murky myths of a science fiction pseudo-religion. Based on Lawrence Wright’s exposé of Scientology,...
- 3/12/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Jon Turteltaub signs up to direct a film about the birth of the campaigning group, with Jerry 'Naked Gun' Zucker producing
It started in 1971, when a ramshackle fishing vessel with a ragtag crew of anti-war protesters sailed to a remote island north of Alaska in the hope of disrupting Us nuclear weapons tests. Taking its name from the rechristened boat, Greenpeace grew into an environmental movement that is still grabbing the headlines almost four decades on. Now Hollywood plans to put that story on the big screen, with Greenpeace's blessing, and hired the director of National Treasure and the producer of the Airplane and Naked Gun films to do it.
According to Variety, Jon Turteltaub, whose CV also includes Cool Runnings and While You Were Sleeping, has signed to direct, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing. The trade paper also reports that The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has been approached to write the script.
It started in 1971, when a ramshackle fishing vessel with a ragtag crew of anti-war protesters sailed to a remote island north of Alaska in the hope of disrupting Us nuclear weapons tests. Taking its name from the rechristened boat, Greenpeace grew into an environmental movement that is still grabbing the headlines almost four decades on. Now Hollywood plans to put that story on the big screen, with Greenpeace's blessing, and hired the director of National Treasure and the producer of the Airplane and Naked Gun films to do it.
According to Variety, Jon Turteltaub, whose CV also includes Cool Runnings and While You Were Sleeping, has signed to direct, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing. The trade paper also reports that The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has been approached to write the script.
- 11/17/2009
- by Chai Hong Lim
- The Guardian - Film News
"National Treasure" director Jon Turteltaub will direct a film detailing the roots of the Greenpeace movement. Jerry and Janet Zucker will produce.The story will be set in the late 1970s and early 1980s and told through the eyes of the organization's founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. According to Variety, Aurelius Films is financing development of the project, and the company's Matthew Joynes and Jesse Kennedy are also producers. Joynes, has secured the organization's official cooperation, and has also acquired the rights to two books that will form the story: Weyler's "Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World" and Hunter's "Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement."The producers have been in...
- 11/14/2009
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
By Variety
"National Treasure" helmer Jon Turteltaub is on board to direct a bigscreen project chronicling the origin of the Greenpeace movement, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing.Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization's charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler.
Read more at Variety.
"National Treasure" helmer Jon Turteltaub is on board to direct a bigscreen project chronicling the origin of the Greenpeace movement, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing.Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization's charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler.
Read more at Variety.
- 11/13/2009
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
I always thought that Captain Kirk and Spock were the greatest environmentalists around, but apparently they are nothing compared to Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler, founders of Greenpeace. Now Jon Turteltaub of National Treasure fame is directing a movie based on the origins of their movement, with Jerry and Janet Zucker producing. Variety has some details: Set primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, story will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization’s charismatic founding members, Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. The duo led an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as they attempted — often successfully — to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters. In the process, they inadvertently started a movement that is still going strong nearly four decades later. The film will primarily be based on two books, Weyler...
- 11/13/2009
- by Jacob
- Beyond Hollywood
He found a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence and made us all believe John Travolta had special powers, and now Jon Turteltaub is going to make something out of those hippies who run around on boats trying to save whales. That's right: he's giving Greenpeace the National Treasure treatment. According to Variety, the film will be set in the late 70s and early 80s, when the organization was just getting started thanks to charismatic founding members Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. It sounds like the take will be something along the lines of an ecological Ocean's Eleven, with a ragtag group teaming up to stop things like infant harp seal hunting and nuclear bomb tests. Greenpeace will be cooperating on the project, which means we probably won't be seeing too many dirty hippie jokes or comments about exactly how relevant Greenpeace is these days. But...
- 11/13/2009
- cinemablend.com
It looks like former Vice President Al Gore isn't the only one pushing green films as Variety reports National Treasure director Jon Turteltaub is next set to direct a film chronicling the birth of Greenpeace, the organization fighting for the protection and conservation of the environment. The yet-to-be titled film will be told through the eyes of the controversial organization's charismatic founding members: Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler as recounted in their respective books Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement and Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World. The books (and the feature film to follow) chronicle a group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists, primarily in the late 1970's and early 1980's, as they set out to disrupt American and French nuclear bomb tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian infant harp seal hunters. In their frequent...
- 11/13/2009
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
National Treasure helmer Jon Turteltaub will direct a movie about the formation of the Greenpeace movement, reports Variety. The story will centre on Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler, the founders of the environmental organisation, as they assemble an eclectic group of ecologists, musicians and teachers to protest American and French nuclear tests, Japanese and Russian whaling ships and Norwegian seal hunters. Aurelius Films has picked up the screen rights to two books - Weyler's (more)...
- 11/13/2009
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Jon Turteltaub, director of the National Treasure movies and most recently another Nicolas Cage vehicle with The Sorceror's Apprentice, is set to tackle some rather more realistic events, with the news that he's developing a story about the founders of the Greenpeace movement.Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler, for it was they, turned a disparate group of pacificists, environmentalists, scientists, sailors, musicians and teachers into the anti-nuclear, anti-whaling group that we all know today. And helpfully they've both written books about it, which will form the basis of this film: Weyler's 'Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World' and Hunter's Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement.Turteltaub and his producers are currently looking for writers, and rather excitingly are in early discussions with West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin. He, of course, recently wrote the much talked-about script for the Facebook movie The Social Network,...
- 11/13/2009
- EmpireOnline
Jon Turteltaub is best known as the director of the National Treasure films and the upcoming live action movie The Sorcerer's Apprentice. So you can understand why I was a little shocked at first to learn that Turteltaub has signed on to direct Greenpeace, the story of the origin of the controversial conservation organization. It gets even better... According to Variety, West Wing/The Social Network scribe Aaron Sorkin is in early talks to write the screenplay. The narrative will be adapted from two books: Weyler's "Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World" and Hunter's "Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement." Aurelius Films has also secured the organization's official cooperation. Set in the 1970s and early 1980s, the story will follow Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler as they led "an eccentric group of pacifists, ecologists, musicians, teachers, sailors, and scientists as...
- 11/13/2009
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
John Turtletaub making a film about the origins of the Greenpeace movement is already a strange idea in itself - the National Treasure director isn't exactly the one I'd pick for a serious project. But then it gets weirder: Airplane and Naked Gun guy Jerry Zucker is producing. With his wife. Nic Cage and Leslie Nielsen take on whale hunters?... The yet-untitled film would chronicle the organization's early days in the 70s and 80s, seen through the eyes of its founders Bob Hunter and Rex...
- 11/13/2009
- by Tony Lang
- JoBlo.com
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