Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan to star as reporters who broke Harvey Weinstein story

By ANI
WASHINGTON: Actors Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are set to star as reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who uncovered disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

As per Variety, Mulligan and Kazan will characteristic in ‘She Said’, a film about The New York Times sexual harassment investigation in opposition to Weinstein that kicked off the #MeToo motion.

Mulligan and Kazan are in closing negotiations for the Universal Pictures film to play Twohey and Kantor, the authors of the guide ‘She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement’.

The upcoming movie will give attention to Twohey and Kantor’s work to uncover the widespread sexual harassment and assault allegations over a number of many years in opposition to Weinstein, The Weinstein Company co-chairman who was ultimately sentenced to 23 years in jail.

Kantor and Twohey broke the primary story on Weinstein on October 5, 2017, and produced a collection of tales after as extra females got here ahead. They gained the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, together with Ronan Farrow from The New Yorker, for his or her investigation and reporting.

Maria Schrader, an Emmy winner for Netflix’s ‘Unorthodox’, is helming from a script by Oscar winner Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Production on the movie is about to start this summer time.

Annapurna Pictures and Plan B Entertainment optioned the rights to ‘She Said’ in 2018 below their co-production deal. Megan Ellison will government produce for Annapurna with Sue Naegle. Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner will produce for Plan B.

Universal VP of manufacturing Lexi Barta will oversee the mission for the studio.

Mulligan, who was nominated for an Oscar this yr for ‘Promising Young Woman’, is about to start filming on Johan Renck’s ‘Spaceman’ and Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’.

Kazan just lately starred in ‘The Plot Against America’, the Coen brothers’ ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ and ‘The Big Sick’.

‘She Said’ reunites Mulligan and Kazan on their third mission. Mulligan and Kazan starred in Ian Ricksons’ Broadway manufacturing of ‘The Seagull’ in 2008. In 2018, Mulligan starred within the movie ‘Wildlife’, which Kazan co-wrote and produced.

This is the primary time they are going to seem collectively onscreen.