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August 27, 2009
Ratner to be featured in film
TheDeal.com
by Gerald Magpily
Who wants to bet Bruce plays the villain?
Real estate dealmaker Bruce Ratner of Forest City Ratner Cos. is next to have his moment in the limelight. The owner of the National Basketball Association franchise the Nets will take center court in a documentary titled "The Battle of Brooklyn" about a neighborhood's struggle with the real estate mogul's plan to build a stadium in Prospect Heights for his team.
The six-year saga is still developing with the stadium still not built, which brings a slight dilemma for the filmmaker Michael Galinsky, who has more than 300 hours of footage and expects to have a finished product for film festivals by next year.
"You can't really edit a documentary until you kind of know the end of the story," he told the Daily News. "We don't know the end, but we do have a sense of an arc, and the end is coming. By Dec. 31, either shovels will be in the ground or they will not, and that will be the end of the story."
Posted by eric at August 27, 2009 9:52 AM