8:48 am. That one minute, when the first hijacked plane exploded into the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, flashed across television screens around the world. The three digits became a permanent fixture of around-the-clock news coverage, engraving it into history and the subconscious of peoples’ minds worldwide.
It was over coffee and rapid-fire conversation with a writer friend in New York that Ian Thomas McLean came up with the idea to draw on peoples’ responses to the event in an ambitious film project.