Atwood: 9/ 11 terrorists were inspired by Star Wars PEOPLE Newsmakers

Los Angeles: Author Margaret Atwood has said that she believes the 9/ 11 terrorists attacks may have been inspired from a plot point of sci- fi classic Star Wars.

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In an interview with Variety, the author discussed how an opera based on the novel that premiered in Denmark in 2000 had showed various things blowing up, including the “Twin Towers”.

Atwood, who was recognised as one of Variety’s Power of Women honorees, said when the opera was staged again, they had to take it out “because it was no longer in the future”.

She asked the interviewer whether this gave him a creepy feeling and when he said, “Yes, it does”, she replied, “They didn’t get that idea from my opera,

Two guys fly a plane in the middle of something and blow that up? The only difference is, in Star Wars, they get away.

— Margaret Atwood,

Author

don’t worry. They got the idea from “Star Wars”.

“Remember the first one? Two guys fly a plane in the middle of something and blow that up? The only difference is, in ‘ Star Wars’, they get away. Right after 9/ 11, they hired a bunch of Hollywood screenwriters to tell them how the story might go next,” she said