Fail Safe

Above is pictures of the Fail Safe Script and Backstage pass I received off of Ebay!

The Official web site is up....at  http://www.failsafetv.com

Here are some Screen Caps from the commercial and from an interview on Access Hollywood  and Entertainment Tonight sent to my by Kathy!  Thanks Kathy

This just in fromYahoo!  LIVE CHAT WITH GEORGE!!!!!!!!!

BURBANK, Calif., March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- ``Fail Safe,'' a thrilling black & white television movie (based on the 1962 best-selling novel of the same title) set to broadcast live Sunday, April 9 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET [delayed PT]) on the CBS Television Network, will launch a multi-tiered black & white Web site on Warner Bros. Online (http://www.warnerbros.com or http://www.FailSafeTV.com).

George Clooney, who also serves as executive producer, reunites with his former ``ER'' co-star Noah Wyle, in the suspenseful drama in which Cold War tensions climb over a botched military exercise. In the movie, Clooney will play Colonel Jack Grady, a U.S. Air Force pilot who is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow. Wyle will portray Buck, a young translator for the U.S. President (played by Richard Dreyfuss), responsible for communicating his messages to the Russian Chairman. The story follows American military experts and heads of state as they tentatively team with their Russian counterparts and plunge into a crisis of split-second decision-making -- until time runs out.

The Web site itself is set to launch Thursday, March 30 and will include an exclusive audio interview with ``Fail Safe'' executive producer/star George Clooney; a historical interactive timeline of the development of the Atomic Bomb, the film's central focus, and a ``Fail Safe'' screening room with streaming video of ``behind-the-scenes'' footage from the actors' promotional photo shoot and press conference footage. It also contains synopses of the film's historic tale as well as the original novel; biographies of the telefilm's award-winning actors, producers, writers and director as well as a biography of original screenplay writer, Walter Bernstein, and novelists, Harvey Wheeler and Eugene Burdick.

On Wednesday, April 5 (1:00-2:00PM, PT), the entire cast of ``Fail Safe,'' including Clooney and Wyle, as well as the project's behind-the-scenes talent will participate in a press conference which will be Webcast live by Warner Bros. Online. The event will be rebroadcast in its entirety (check http://www.warnerbros.com for times) and excerpts will be downloadable. Two days later, on Friday, April 7 (2:10-2:30 PM, PT), Clooney and Wyle will conduct a live chat session hosted by America Online an accessible at keyword: AOL Live.

In addition to Clooney and Wyle (``ER,'' ``A Few Good Men''), ``Fail Safe'' also stars Richard Dreyfuss (``Mr. Holland's Opus,'' ``The Goodbye Girl''), Harvey Keitel (``Mean Streets,'' ``Taxi Driver''), Hank Azaria (``The Birdcage,'' ``Grosse Pointe Blank''), Brian Dennehy (``Presumed Innocent,'' ``Cocoon''), James Cromwell (``The General's Daughter,'' ``The Green Mile''), Sam Elliott (``The Big Lebowski,'' ``Tombstone''), Don Cheadle (``Boogie Nights,'' ``Bulworth''), William Smitrovich (``Life Goes On,'' ``Independence Day''), John Diehl (``The Client'') and Norman Lloyd (``Dead Poets Society,'' ``Journey of Honor''). The production team behind ``Fail Safe,'' charged with successfully broadcasting a live event of this magnitude, includes executive producer Laura Ziskin (``No Way Out,'' ``Pretty Woman,'' and ``As Good As It Gets''), director Stephen Frears (``Dangerous Liaisons,'' ``The Grifters'' and ``Mary Reilly''), famed screenwriter, Walter Bernstein (who returns to write the screenplay for the live broadcast and who originally authored the screenplay for the 1964 film of the same title), and producer Ethel Winant (``Playhouse 90''), a television industry pioneer.

``Fail Safe'' is being produced by George Clooney's Maysville Pictures, in association with Warner Bros. Television. George Clooney, Pam Williams and Laura Ziskin are the executive producers; Tom Park is the producer. ``Fail Safe'' is sponsored in part by Ford Motor Company's Ford Division, which is represented by Ford Motor Media and J. Walter Thompson, and by State Farm Insurance Companies, which are represented by DDB Worldwide.

Warner Bros. Online (warnerbros.com) is positioned to become the ultimate Internet entertainment destination, offering the best of what the best has to offer. Providing an exclusive, official entry point into all things that are Warner Bros., complete with breaking news, detailed information, exclusive proprietary still images and video clips, movie trailers and ad campaigns, behind-the-scenes sneak peeks, contests, interactive fan opportunities and e-commerce related to all Warner Bros.-based entertainment, and also featuring exclusive, innovative original content that may or may not be drawn from popular Warner Bros. icons. Warner Bros. Online is accessible on the World Wide Web at http://www.warnerbros.com.

Warner Bros. Online contact: Cathy Dore, 818-977-8864, cdore@wb.com.

SOURCE: Warner Bros. Online

From CBS.com interview:
How did George Clooney, the producer, get the green light from CBS?:

Clooney:
I sat down with Les (Moonves, President and CEO, CBS Television) and I said, "Okay, here's the deal: Fail Safe. Live." And he goes, "Mmm hmm. Mmm hmm." And I go, "Black and white." And he goes, "Mmm hmm." And then we kind of looked at each other for a minute, and he goes, "You're going to be in it." And I go, "Mmm hmm." And then we both kind of laughed and I said, "Okay, fair enough." Which is fun. I'm glad we're doing it that way.

What does an actor go through for a live broadcast?

Clooney:
Well, there's a lot of drinking involved. A lot of drinking and a lot of crying. You go through all the panic and fear...I'll be nervous. I'll be a wreck. I'll be the guy backstage about ten minutes before, thinking, "What was I thinking?" But that's part of the fun of it. And then you get to a point where you go, well, what am I gonna do, not do it? Am I gonna not show up now that I've said I'll do it? The answer is, hopefully, no. And then you just sort of rise above the fear and you just do it. This will be well rehearsed and ready to go when we do it.

For the complete interview, see the CBS Fail Safe site

Received from a source at CBS:

George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Richard Dreyfuss, Harvey Keitel, Hank Azaria, Brian Dennehy, James Cromwell, Sam Elliott, Don Cheadle and John Diehl have joined the cast of FAIL SAFE, the live television event to be broadcast Sunday, April 9 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET [delayed PT]) on the CBS Television
Network. 

The drama is based on the 1962 best-selling novel of the same title, in which Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow. Walter Bernstein, who wrote the screenplay for the 1964 film based on the classic novel by Harvey Wheeler and Eugene Burdick, returns to write the screenplay for the live broadcast, which will be directed by Stephen Frears.

Colonel Jack Grady (Clooney) is a U.S. Air Force bomber pilot assigned to what he imagines to be another routine flight. At the same time, in the Omaha War Room, Colonels Bogan (Dennehy) and Cascio (Diehl) and Gordon Knapp (Cromwell), one of the developers of the computer defense systems used by the U.S. military, are giving a tour of the facility to Congressman Tom
Raskob (Elliott). Bogan points out an unidentified flying object on the radar, but assumes that they will be able to identify it shortly, as they always do.

Meanwhile, at the Pentagon War Room, pilot Warren "Blackie" Black (Keitel) and his fellow war advisors are monitoring the same blip on the radar, but remain unconcerned. Coincidentally, on this morning, Professor Groteschele (Azaria) has joined the group to discuss the topic of accidental war. 

Just seconds before the fail-safe point at which bombers are ordered into action, the U.F.O. is identified as a lost plane and the bombers are called in. But a computer malfunction has caused the light to flash on Grady's
fail-safe box, enforcing his group of planes to follow orders corresponding to a special code -- in this case, to bomb Moscow. The War Room staff desperately attempts to contact the planes, but the signals are jammed. 

Finally, the U.S. president (Dreyfuss) is alerted. With the help of his advisors at the Pentagon and a young translator named Buck (Wyle), he tries to convince the Russian Chairman that the U.S. bombers are headed toward his capital due to a mechanical failure, not as an attempt to provoke war. But as Grady's plane nears its target, the U.S. president is forced to do the unthinkable in order to prevent the start of World War III.

FAIL SAFE is being produced by George Clooney's Maysville Pictures, in association with Warner Bros. Television. George Clooney, Pam Williams and Laura Ziskin are the executive producers; Tom Park is the producer. FAIL SAFE is sponsored in part by Ford Motor Company's Ford Division, which is represented by Ford Motor Media and J. Walter Thompson, and by State Farm Insurance Companies, which are represented by DDB Worldwide.

RATING: To Be Announced