Richard Jewell: The Movie

So it seems that Jonah Hill will be playing Richard Jewell and Leonardo DiCaprio his attorney in an upcoming movie about the Olympics bombing.

The film will be based on this Vanity Fair article, http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1997/02/brenner199702

It was written by Marie Brenner and a genuinely good read. Dave Kindred made a brief appearance and it was one I suspect he'd like to forget.

I had forgotten many of the details of the story. The FBI decided one day to wreck this guy's life all because Louis Freeh thought they should.

The story is also a primer on how great journalists perform terrible journalism.

On side note, I watched the Summer Olympics at my mom's because, like Jewell, I was a loser living at home and trying to figure out my life as I was thinking about a career in law enforcement.

And I remember watching the live feed coverage on her big satellite dish on the farm and it was amazing to see. They'd go to break and Karl Ravech would hop up from the desk, shorts on, with a suit coat and tie, and smoking cigarettes one after another before they came back from the commercials.

 

I'd be delighted to have a cameo in my real-life role as night manager at the adjacent press center.

 

Just watched the 30 for 30. Well done. Horrific abuse he endured.

 

I also watched the 30 for 30 last night. I was struck by how the AJC claimed Jewell was a public figure and since he was a public figure because of their shitty reporting, they weren't libel for their shitty reporting because he was a public figure.

That is one helluva trick to pull off.

 

When is this movie supposed to be in theatres? Having lived and worked there at the time, I would be interested in seeing it. (No, I'm not Richard Jewell and have never met him.)

 

It would be pretty difficult to meet him these days.