THB 607a Sidebar: More detail on the origins of "September 5"

This is a follow-up on yesterday’s piece/review of September 5.

I got some insight from sources who have much better insight than I into the story of how September 5 became a Paramount award season release.

To start with, the project started in 2021 with the ambition of covering 4 different stories about the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics, Remnants of at least one of the other perspectives - a woman who negotiates directly with the terrorists - remains in the film. But the project got too big for its britches/budget and was deemed unproducable. So the directing/producing team narrowed it down to the ABC Sports story, which had been deeply researched, and got the project back on track.

It turns out that September 5 was not made by "two German production companies," as I wrote yesterday. The film was developed and made by BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion, which has produced every film from Tim Fehlbaum so far. It is a co-production with Constantin, the biggest German production hou…