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By Jeff Sneider | The Wrap – Sun, Jun 16, 2013
Oscar-nominated actor Matt Damon is being sought to star in Tom McCarthy’s untitled movie about the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reportage on the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal, numerous individuals close to the project have told TheWrap.
Anonymous Content and Rocklin/Faust are producing the movie with Participant Media, which was planning to co-finance the film with DreamWorks before Steven Spielberg’s studio pulled out of the sure-to-be controversial drama on Thursday.
Producers are now shopping the prestige project around town, with Warner Bros. the leading contender to distribute.
Described as being in the tonal vein of “All the Presidents Men,” the story follows the Catholic Church’s decades-long cover-up of its pedophile priests in Massachusetts.
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