GERMANY: GERMAN PREMIERE OF SPIELBERG AND CRUISE FILM "MINORITY REPORT"/ SPIELBERG DENIES COMPARISONS WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN AND IRAQ

Record ID: 393106

  • Title: GERMANY: GERMAN PREMIERE OF SPIELBERG AND CRUISE FILM "MINORITY REPORT"/ SPIELBERG DENIES COMPARISONS WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN AND IRAQ
  • Date: 26th September 2002
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 26, 2002) (REUTERS) PAN FROM FANS OUTSIDE BERLIN MOVIE THEATRE AND MOVIE POSTER SMV TOM CRUISE TAKING PHOTOGRAPH OF HIMSELF AND A FAN SMV FANS HOLDING UP POSTERS READING WE LOVE YOU TOM SLV CRUISE SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS AND WAVING WIDE OF CROWD OUTSIDE SLV CRUISE WALKING TO MICROPHONE SCU SOUNDBITE (English) TOM CRUISE (asked what is next project w
  • Embargoed: 11th October 2002 13:00
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  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Entertainment,General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA104EI507LXX4M2YV8YHDYC6MX
  • Story Text: Steven Spielberg, director of the film "Minority Report" about hunting down criminals before they act, has said that he saw no parallel to a possible "preventive" war against Iraq.
    "Saddam Hussein does not have any parallels to pre-crime in Minority Report," Spielberg told a news conference in Berlin on Thursday evening (September 26) before the German premiere of the film.
    "Saddam Hussein has proved every day that he is currently a criminal, not a criminal to be."
    U.S. President George W. Bush wants to act against Saddam, saying he is a brutal dictator bent on developing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
    In the movie "Minority Report" Tom Cruise acts as a futuristic police officer trying to prove he has been wrongly accused of a crime he has not yet committed.
    Saddam "is certainly a criminal in the past," Spielberg said. I certainly believe that what our government is doing to try to protect our country and the rest of the world...
    against all of those things he currently in production of is justification enough.
    "What we don't want to do is to wind up, you know, five years from now when something horrendous has happened in another country, to another city, and say why didnt the world act when it had the chance."
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