12:56 pm - 02/27/2013
A Connecticut woman whose son died in the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center says she's upset the Oscar-winning movie "Zero Dark Thirty" used a recording of his last words without her permission.
Mary Fetchet of New Canaan told CBS News and the Daily News this week that she was shocked the filmmakers didn't ask if they could use the voicemail her son, Bradley Fetchet, left on her phone while he was on the 89th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower.
The movie about the manhunt for Osama bin Laden begins with the voices of 9/11 victims making their last phone calls.
Sony Pictures Entertainment said in a statement that the filmmakers contacted several relatives of 9/11 victims about using the voice recordings.
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'Zero Dark Thirty' 9/11 Phone Calls Used Without Permission, Says Upset Mom Of Victim
A Connecticut woman whose son died in the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center says she's upset the Oscar-winning movie "Zero Dark Thirty" used a recording of his last words without her permission.
Mary Fetchet of New Canaan told CBS News and the Daily News this week that she was shocked the filmmakers didn't ask if they could use the voicemail her son, Bradley Fetchet, left on her phone while he was on the 89th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower.
The movie about the manhunt for Osama bin Laden begins with the voices of 9/11 victims making their last phone calls.
Sony Pictures Entertainment said in a statement that the filmmakers contacted several relatives of 9/11 victims about using the voice recordings.
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If this is true, that is NOT OK.
that was fucking hard to watch.
That's gross even with permission. Zero Dark Thirty is not a documentary, it's a Hollywood blockbuster that happens to be about a real world event. Stuff that real has no place in it. That'd be using footage of actual emaciated Auschwitz victims in Inglorious Basterds or something.
Urgh, I never want to see this movie, everything about it rubs me the wrong way, and the more I hear the worse it gets.
I think they held back (or were convinced to) until after the awards.
why not sooner? but who really knows
i listened to some of the 9/11 calls and...just...god. :(
It's entirely possible his mother released it as a part of history, perhaps for a particular use, but did not intend for its widespread use or without seeking permission? I don't know.
The pentagon has comunication and press people that helps hollywood movies about the army things, every war movie they do that
I'm so glad that this film flopped at the Oscars.
Once a person has died, their right to privacy is greatly diminished (in a legal sense).
That's why you can dig up so much info on all of those genealogy sites, until you get to the living relatives...then you hit a privacy wall.
Edited at 2013-02-27 06:40 pm (UTC)