Leonardo DiCaprio was originally slated to play the part
when the project was set up at Fox. Some great news arrived today, via The
Hollywood Reporter. Sam Rockwell is set to appear in Clint's Richard Jewell
Movie. Mia Galuppo reports:
Oscar winner Sam Rockwell is readying to close a deal to
star in Clint Eastwood's latest drama, The Ballad of Richard Jewell. The Warner
Bros. project is the story of the titular disgraced Olympic security guard who
was working at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games when he discovered a backpack
containing pipe bombs and subsequently sounded the alarm and helped to clear
the area. Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was soon the prime suspect,
however, as the FBI searched his home twice and the media frenzy painted him as
an overweight failed cop. Rockwell will play the lawyer that would help to
clear Jewell's name.
The movie had been set up at Fox since 2014, with Leonardo
DiCaprio on board to play Jewell's attorney and Jonah Hill set to play the
security guard. Hill and DiCaprio are now producing the project, with Tim
Moore, Jessica Meier, Kevin Misher and Jennifer Davisson, DiCaprio’s partner at
Appian Way. Billy Ray wrote the screenplay. Rockwell was last in theatres
playing George W. Bush in Adam McKay's Vice, and can currently be seen playing
Bob Fosse on FX's Fosse/Verdon.
My kind thanks to Davy Turner
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