Special Bulletin (1983)
Directed by Edward Zwick
An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists who are seeking to destroy the triggers of all local nuclear devices. Moreover, the terrorists threaten to detonate their own device if their demands are not met.
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And rather than feeling like a “Blair Witch” knock-off, “Cloverfield” brings to mind such disparate projects as “84 Charlie MoPic” (a 1989 indie set in Vietnam, where the entire film is seen from the POV of a combat cameraman), “Special Bulletin” (the acclaimed 1983 TV movie that conveyed the story of a nuclear incident entirely through a fictional network’s news coverage), and “Marvels” (a graphic novel that shows the adventures of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and other superheroes as seen by a news photographer).
There’s so much awful here, however, that there’s plenty of blame to go round: to director-screenwriter Edward Zwick ( Defiance , Blood Diamond ), to cowriter Marshall Herskovitz ( Special Bulletin ), but perhaps not to Jamie Reidy, upon whose book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman [ Amazon U.S. ] [ Amazon Canada ] [ Amazon U.K. ] this is surely only very loosely based.