‘9/11: Inside The President’s War Room’ Team Forging BBC Docuseries On London Bombings
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The award-winning team behind 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room are to tell the story of the 7/7 London bombings in a BBC docuseries, while the BBC has greenlit a definitive history of Volodymyr Zelensky from the makers of The Elon Musk Show.
7/7: Three Weeks In July [working title] will document the day plus aftermath of one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in British history, which took place in the English capital almost 20 years ago – killing 52 people when three trains and a bus were blown up by suicide bombers.
9/11 director Adam Wishart’s new indie The Slate Works is producing for the BBC. Inside The President’s War Room, Wishart’s 2021 BBC/Apple TV+ co-pro that told the story of the hours after the Twin Tower attacks via interviews with the likes of George W.
Bush, won a BAFTA and an RTS Award. Key players being interviewed for the 7/7 doc are yet to be confirmed but BBC Head of History Commissioning Simon Young said Wishart is “working hard on access.” “Inside the President’s War Room turned the cameras the other way and it was so interesting to see how the president and his inner circle dealt with the crisis,” Young told Deadline. “We are understanding how historical figures, some of whom are polarizing, have to make really difficult decisions within minutes.
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