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LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com)- Revving toward a swift production, Oliver Stone's upcoming untitled World Trade Center project has added three cast members, including a second leading man to play opposite star Nicolas Cage. Michael Pena has signed on to play real-life Port Authority police officer William J. Jimeno. Along with Sgt. John McLoughlin (Cage), Jimeno was one of the last men rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The film, scripted by Andrea Berloff, focuses on those two men, the people trying to rescue them and their families waiting at home.
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As all of the police officers return to the station, they see the TV, and find that one of the massive twin towers of the World Trade Center has been hit by a plane. Sergeant McLoughlin assigns many of the officers to assist in an evacuation attempt of the (still undamaged) South Tower, and they board a commandeered Metropolitan Transit Authority bus.
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The World Trade Center is centrally located in downtown Portland - across from beautiful Tom McCall Waterfront Park - with convenient access to freeways. Major hotels, shopping, government offices and financial institutions are within a five-minute walk.
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Trade Center was located on landfill, with the bedrock located 65 feet below. In order to construct the World Trade Center, it was necessary to build the "bathtub", with the slurry wall along the West Street side of the site, which serves the purpose of keeping water from the Hudson River out. The slurry method involves digging a trench, and as excavation proceeds, filling the space with a "slurry" mixture, composed of bentonite, which plugs holes and keeps water out. When the trench was dug out, a steel cage was inserted, with concrete poured in, forcing the "slurry" out. The "slurry" method was devised by the Port Authority's chief engineer, John M. Kyle, Jr.
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LOS ANGELES, July 8 [2005] /PRNewswire/ -- Academy Award(R)-winner Nicolas Cage will star in and three-time Academy Award(R)-winner Oliver Stone will direct an untitled World Trade Center project for Paramount Pictures. The film, a dramatic motion picture based on the true story of the rescue of two Port Authority police officers from the collapsed World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, will be produced by Double Feature Films' Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher and former InterMedia Films chairman Moritz Borman. Debra Hill will ... be credited, posthumously, as a producer. Andrea Berloff wrote the original screenplay. The film will be distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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A security company called Stratesec acquires an $8.3 million contract to help provide security at the World Trade Center. It is one of numerous contractors hired in the upgrade of security at the WTC following the 1993 bombing. Stratesec, which was formerly called Securacom, is responsible for installing the “security-description plan”—the layout of the electronic security system—at the World Trade Center. It has a “completion contract” to provide some of the center’s security “up to the day the buildings fell down,” according to Barry McDaniel, its CEO from January 2002. Another of Stratesec’s biggest security contracts, between 1995 and 1998, is with the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority, providing electronic security for Reagan National Airport and Dulles International Airport. Their work includes maintaining the airfield access systems, the CCTV (closed circuit television) systems, and the electronic badging systems.
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