The New York Times’ October 5 story chronicling Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual abuse rocked the entertainment industry and its aftermath has seen the rise of #MeToo and #TimesUp. It’s no exaggeration to say that reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, editor Rebecca Corbett, and the women who shared their stories about the disgraced mogul changed the world. Now their story is coming to the big screen.
Deadline reports that Annapurna and Plan B have teamed up to acquire the rights to give a “‘Spotlight’-like treatment” to the story of how the scandal broke.
“The thrust of the film isn’t Weinstein or his scandal. This is about an all-women team of journalists who persevered through threats of litigation and intimidation, to break a game-changing story, told in a procedural manner like ‘Spotlight’ and ‘All the President’s Men,’” the source details.
No word on who will write, direct, or star in the pic.
Kantor, Twohey, and The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow just won the Pulitzer Prize for their work uncovering decades of abuse by Weinstein, who was among Hollywood’s most powerful and influential producers.
Ashley Judd and former Weinstein Company employee Laura Madden were among the first women to speak out about Weinstein on the record in that original NYT piece. Other women to come forward with their nightmarish experiences with Weinstein include actresses Asia Argento, Rose McGowan, Salma Hayek, Lupita Nyong’o, and Gwyneth Paltrow, and his former assistant Zelda Perkins.
