The backlash against any director, studio, producer or actor that would dare try to use this ehinous event as a means to cash in will be incredible.
Never may be a long time but, the memory of the public is even longer. You can make movies showing the horrors of WWI or WWII or Vietnam or Pearl Harbor or whatever. It some sense, there is a nobility in war, even one as unpopular as 'Nam. People will accept the images they see. Hell, 'member that movie from the 80's The Day After? Even that was acceptable as the idea of nuclear holocaust is just so unthinkable that it's OK to see it as a fictional story. It's just not real enough for us to take it seriously. All that changes now. No suspension of disbelief is required to see a huge building destroyed in the space of 2 hours. We've all seen it on the news.
This tragedy will weigh on our collective conscience and soul for many, many years to come. There will be documentaries made, for sure. But I don't think the public will accept images of this crisis or similar ones in a fictionalized story. At least i hope not in my life time.
