From the outside looking in, a movie about the devastating Oklahoma Bombings of April 1995 would seem more fitting a project for the lens of Paul Greengrass or Oliver Stone than the man who once gave us Bugsy, but director
Barry Levinson has shown with his recent Robert De Niro and Al Pacino character pieces (What Just Happened, You Don't Know Jack) that he has a new willingness to shake things up a bit and try out new fare.
Deadline says Levinson's next film is shaping up to be
O.K.C. (awkward title), based on a screenplay by first time scribe
Clay Wold that depicts the efforts shown by his own brother who was a file clerk on the defense team for bomber Timothy McVeigh. The film will show the "determination to expose the truth led to a bigger conspiracy and nearly destroyed the young man". So think more Stone's JFK than Greengrass' United 93 and I imagine with Wold's brother working on the defense team of McVeigh, there's a fair chance that we could guess which side of the conspiracy fence this will film sit on. McVeigh, a White Christian, All American who when he was rejected by the special forces and he quit the army - he ideas about the U.S. government started to change for the worse. His destructive path led to him driving a rented truck packed full of explosives outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people which before 9/11, was the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Perhaps, like Stone's JFK, a number of wack-job theories will surface in the film - such as the attack was actually committed by Middle-Eastern terrorists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Q3L6x9PjU This theory floated around during the official inquiry into the bombing but was closed down during the investigation. McVeigh was eventually executed by lethal injection in 2001 for his crime. O.K.C. is on the fast track and could film as quickly as this year depending on the state of Wold's latest draft of his screenplay when he turns it in next week.