BOSTON (MA)
TheMediaReport
Dave Pierre
The Hollywood industry newspaper Variety is reporting that a director has been assigned to command a movie about the Boston Globe’s relentless reporting in 2002 about the Catholic Church abuse scandals.
Yet again we see that the media is always looking for another angle to rehash decades-old sex abuse in the Catholic Church. According to Variety:
“Due to the sensitivity of the subject matter, [Director Tom] McCarthy has been working in secret for more than a year on the project that chronicles the worldwide scandal …
“Producers have secured life rights of the Globe reporters responsible, including Spotlight Team members Michael Rezendes, Sacha Pfeiffer and Matt Carroll, Spotlight Team editor Walter ‘Robby’ Robinson, special projects editor Ben Bradlee Jr. and Globe editor Marty Baron.”
“Groundbreaking” work?
The proposed film is described as being in the vein of the 1976 hit film All the President’s Men, which was about the efforts of the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to investigate the alleged Watergate scandal.
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