Heat Gets Too Much For '3000 Degrees'

[Wednesday, April 7th, 2004]
Warner Bros. Pictures are shutting down preproduction on 3000 Degrees due to opposition from a firefighters union in Massachusetts, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The movie, to star Ed Harris and Woody Harrelson for director Danny Boyle, was to have begun filming on locations in Toronto next month.

The project was based on Sean Flynn's nonfiction book "3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It," an account of the tragic fire that turned a century-old storage building in Worcester, Mass., into a tinderbox that claimed the lives of six firefighters in December 1999.

Since the project's announcement early last year, at least four of the six families involved have objected to the production, and the town's firefighters lined up behind them. But with Boyle stepping in -- Michael Mann had originally been attached to direct -- and major casting begun, the project appeared to be on track.

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