There, they killed two members of the Israeli Olympic Team and took nine others hostage.
September 5depicts and recounts the events of the heartbreaking 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis.
The film also co-starsJohn Magaro(Past Lives) andLeonie Benesch(The Crown).
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What the hell was this edit actually like?
What was your first director’s cut?
No, interesting enough, it wasn’t much longer.
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It was never longer than 100 minutes, 105 minutes or so.
The script was already really tight, in a way.
We knew they didn’t have time to stop and think that day.
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It was always, as Tim said, from the script level, meant to be a propulsive story.
Tim is a master at visual storytelling, so you pack a lot into every single shot.
As a producer, I was like, Oh, a 100-minute director’s cut.
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Let’s do it!
[Laughs]
You must have been overjoyed.
PALMER: Always, working with Tim.
PALMER: We were never in that position.
It’s still what we talk about today.
Can you talk about that moment in time?
Because this was the first time the world experienced tragedy in real time together.
We wanted the audience to reflect on our own consumption of news and of the media today.
Certainly not any more resolved.
What shot or sequence ended up being the toughest to shoot and why?
Maybe because of a camera move or dialogue or both.
We did a lot of different approaches to that scene because it’s such an important scene.
September 5is in theaters now.
