It’s difficult to overstate the impact that Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s investigation into Harvey Weinstein had — and continues to have — on the entertainment industry and beyond. Earlier this month Vanity Fair went so far as to write that the pair’s New York Times exposé detailing the disgraced mogul’s alleged sexual abuse “divided the modern world into two distinct epochs: before the Weinstein story broke, and after.” Published October 5, 2017, their story helped bring Tarana Burke’s #MeToo movement to the mainstream and led to the formation of #TimesUp.
Since 2018 we’ve known that the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists are set to serve as inspiration for a new feature, and now the untitled Annapurna and Plan B project has a screenwriter attached. Deadline reports that “Colette” scribe Rebecca Lenkiewicz has signed on to pen the script, which will explore how Kantor and Twohey reported on and broke the story.
“Disobedience” and “Ida” are among Lenkiewicz’s other credits. She has two other projects in the pipeline: “Rio,” a thriller she co-wrote about a financial reporter who gets sucked into helping his friend fake their death, and “The Sea Change,” a drama that sees an unhappily married couple taking a trip to a remote Greek Island. She co-wrote the former and wrote the latter, which marks Kristin Scott Thomas’s directorial debut.
“She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement,” Kantor and Twohey’s book about what took place behind the scenes of their Weinstein story, hit shelves in September.