Report: Movie related to Newtown shooting in the works

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. A director says he's traveling to Connecticut to prepare for a TV movie related to the Newtown school shooting.

Jonathan Bucari told News 12 Connecticut he planned to visit Ridgefield on Monday.

Ridgefield is 20 miles southwest of Newtown, where a gunman fatally shot 20 first-graders, six educators and himself in December.

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WVIT-TV reports Bucari's film company says the film focuses on a 13-year-old boy with mental illness and a fear of his parents after the shooting.

Bucari says he picked Ridgefield because it looks like Newtown and he didn't want to upset Newtown residents so soon after the killings.

Ridgefield schools superintendent Deborah Low says the timing is "poor."

Bucari's Internet Movie Database page lists one completed directorial project, a TV pilot called "The Sacrificial Lamb." He has no listed telephone number and hasn't responded to online messages.

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[FallonBill]

Any thought of making hay out of such tragedy is nothing but obscene.

[nygurl1]

Agreed!

[lovelygal900]

this a real life tragedy and doesnt need to replay on the tv screen. what the heck is wrong holywood. it is in poor taste. i will definitely watch if they do it. they should consider what the family going through right now. or do they really care.

[Bojax39]

Okay, enough of this mourning. Time to exploit the situation and make money!

Let's make a FILM! That way we can get the hoi polloi excited and appeal to the unwholesome interest of all! The feelings of friends and family? Screw 'em. After all. it's been two months already, yeah? Time to move on.

The truth? Why? If we put enough spin on it to get people outraged enough to insist on a bunch of restrictive laws, so much the better. We might even get an atta-boy from the President!

So much for common decency. Pathetic.

[nygurl1]

You were doing fine til you had to let your rep gene loose!
S much for common decency indeed!

[CBS_RocketJL]

Hollywood is helping out a desperate president and senator who are trying to take away guns from Americans. This sickness has nothing to do with guns, it is tied to the degradation congress and the politicians have set upon Americans for the last two decades. They have taken that generation and will not allow anyone to see the decay it has generated. We have always had guns, but this type of crime is something new. Now Obama wants to push the UN Agenda 21 and it's world-wide gun ban on America. Once they get our guns you will have to fight to get them back.

[Bojax39]

CBS_RocketJL says: "This sickness has nothing to do with guns, it is tied to the degradation congress and the politicians have set upon Americans for the last two decades."

AGREED. Not to mention the degradation of certain movie goers who take an almost purient interest in this situation, making the movie a MUST SEE for many.

So what's more sick? The making of the film, or the fact that those making it know their audience so well?

[nygurl1]

Well it didn't take long for you conspiracy idjits to show up!
Why don't you address the schmuck who wants to make the movie instead of bringing YOUR bias and hate against the President?

[lah99]

This was inevitable. The movie industry will take any opportunity to make a buck and at the expense of virtually anyone.

[lillyhorton]

I wonder if hollywood actors will do a better job convincing me that Sandy Hook wasn't a government mission to pass gun laws. Maybe they can straighten out the kinks out of the story. I won't be watching.

[nygurl1]

It won't be a "HOLLYWOOD" movie! ...It's gonna be a quicky for TV!
Odds are you won't know anyone who is in it unless they can persuade a star with no axe to grind on the gun issue.
Whatever they do, it will be garbage!

[erasmus111]

Like I've been saying, America is sick.

[MSISTEPMINSTREL]

W-------H------Y ???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --- IS THERE ANY NEED AT ALL TO REVIEW THAT RAW AND UNSETTLING MATERIAL??!

[tville33and3]

I agree with you, why bring it up again, it was terrible.

[MSISTEPMINSTREL]

W-------H------Y ???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --- IS THERE ANY NEED AT ALL TO REVIEW THAT RAW AND UNSETTLING MATERIAL??!

[johnlockesghost]

The propaganda mill is hard at work, cashing in on violence and heartbreak. Why would anyone in their right mind want to see such a film?