George Nolfi May Have One Minute To Midnight

There have already been a few decent movies about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but it appears few people have watched to likes of the excellent Thirteen Days, as Hollywood is planning another take on the story, as The Adjustment Bureau’s writer/director George Nolfi is attached to helm One Minute to Midnight.

THR reports that Nolfi will also rewrite the adaptation of Michael Dobbs’ 2008 non-fiction novel, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War. The title refers to the doomsday clock and just how close it came to the end of the world in 1962!

The book is an hour-by-hour account of the events on all sides of the conflict between The United States and The Soviet Union, when the communists attempted to place missiles in Cuba, which was far to close to the States for comfort, and led to a potentially cataclysmic stand-off as the Russian missiles sailed towards the island.

There’s no news on when the movie might shoot.