Gee, do ya think?

Hollywood producers of the black comedy American Dreamz are reconsidering the script after the London attacks because it involves suicide bombers attempting to assassinate the American president.

The film, starring Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid and Willem Dafoe, features a group of Pakistani terrorists, who target a mentally frail president played by Quaid. The spate of attacks on London by Islamic extremists have, however, rattled the film-makers, Paul and Chris Weitz.

Last night, a member of the film’s production team admitted that the storyline might be too sensitive for the film’s scheduled release in February 2006. He told The Sunday Telegraph: “Obviously we’re extremely concerned about the sensitivities everyone has towards terrorism, especially in London.”

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The lead terrorist is thought to be named Omar, an unfortunate choice in the light of Wednesday’s arrest of bombing suspect Yasin Hassan Omar. The 24-year-old Somalian is being questioned in relation to the failed blast at Warren Street Underground station on July 21.

While he was being held at Paddington Green station in London, however, the film-makers continued discussions about the plot’s direction.

They refused to say whether the terrorists would be edited out of the script entirely, or who had been lined up to play them. Insiders indicated, however, that as shooting on American Dreamz has only recently begun at the Universal Studios in Hollywood, making amendments to the script would be fairly straightforward.

Furthermore, could Hollywood be making a politcial statement with their president being “mentally frail”? They wouldn’t be taking a cheap shot at President Bush…would they? Nah…silly me.