Leonardo DiCaprio & Jonah Hill Re-Team For Richard Jewell Movie
EXCLUSIVE: Fox has closed a deal to acquire rights to Marie Brenner’s 1997 Vanity Fair article “The Ballad Of Richard Jewell”, which will be developed for Jonah Hill to play the title subject. Jewell was the security guard who discovered a backpack in the Olympics compound in Atlanta in 1996. Initially hailed a hero for reporting the suspicious knapsack and then helping clear bystanders from the area before it exploded, Jewell was subsequently vilified just three days later as a potential suspect, his life and reputation torn apart in the advent of the 24 hour news cycle. Leonardo DiCaprio will play a lawyer Jewell knew casually, a Southern attorney who mostly did real estate closings and seemed in over his head, but he guided Jewell through a hellish Twilight Zone that went on even after the FBI officially cleared Jewell’s name three months later.


‘Captain Phillips’ Writer Boards Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill’s Atlanta Olympics Drama (EXCLUSIVE) | Variety
After receiving an Oscar nomination for real-life drama “Captain Phillips,” screenwriter Billy Ray has been tapped to bring another true story to the big screen for Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill.
Ray is set to write the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing drama “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” which is based on Marie Brenner’s article in Vanity Fair.
The drama will reunite “The Wolf of Wall Street” duo DiCaprio and Hill. Both actors, whom received an Oscar nomination for their performance in Martin Scorsese’s saga, are attached to star.
DiCaprio will produce with Jennifer Davisson Killoran through his Appian Way banner. Hill will also produce, along with Kevin Misher who discovered the article.
The Vanity Fair article follows a security guard who reported on the knapsack bomb at the 1996 summer Olympics and helped clear bystanders — only to find himself vilified and suspected of being involved in the terrorism plot. Hill will play Jewell and DiCaprio will play the lawyer out to clear his name.
Given how many projects are in development for both actors, it’s unknown when exactly this film would move forward into production. But Fox’s expedience in acquiring rights to the story and hiring the “Captain Phillips” writer show the studio views it as a major priority.
Ray won the Writers Guild of America’s adapted screenplay award last month for “Captain Phillips.”

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Never Gone, Never Far,
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R.I.P. Paul Walker (1973/2013)

are you sleepy? wanna sleep?

Never Gone, Never Far,
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R.I.P. Paul Walker (1973/2013)

are you sleepy? wanna sleep?

Never Gone, Never Far,
In my heart is where you are.

R.I.P. Paul Walker (1973/2013)

are you sleepy? wanna sleep?

Never Gone, Never Far,
In my heart is where you are.

R.I.P. Paul Walker (1973/2013)

are you sleepy? wanna sleep?

Never Gone, Never Far,
In my heart is where you are.

R.I.P. Paul Walker (1973/2013)

are you sleepy? wanna sleep?