![]() ![]() ![]() Olivia Wilde In ‘Richard Jewell’ Twitter Frenzy They next are seen leaving the bar together, presumably to complete what comes off as a quid pro quo transaction. As the hand she has placed on his leg moves upward, the agent whispers the tip about Jewell in her ear. She’s seen in a bar with FBI agent Tom Shaw (played by Jon Hamm in an amalgamation of several law enforcement officers involved in the investigation). Olivia Wilde plays her as a steely and sexy reporter who wasn’t above flirting with sources to get tips. That includes not only Jewell but Scruggs, who likely would have sued were she still alive. Several of the key characters in the film have died. And by the way, I will stand by every word and assertion in the script,” he added. The movie isn’t about Kathy Scruggs it’s about the heroism and hounding of Richard Jewell, and what rushed reporting can do to an innocent man. They focus solely on one single minute in a movie that’s 129 minutes long, opting to challenge one assertion in the movie rather than accepting their own role in destroying the life of a good man. And what do they decide to do? They launch a distraction campaign. Now a movie comes along 23 years later, a perfect chance for the AJC to atone for what they did to Richard and to admit to their misdeeds. And this was after he had saved hundreds of lives. ![]() “They compared him to noted mass murderer Wayne Williams. “They editorialized wildly and printed assumptions as facts,” Ray said. “The AJC hung Richard Jewell, in public.” ‘Richard Jewell’ writer Billy Ray, left, with stars Kathy Bates and Paul Walter Hauser at Deadline’s The Contenders New York. “This movie is about a hero whose life was completely destroyed by myths created by the FBI and the media, specifically the AJC,” Ray told Deadline. Warner Bros Vows To Blow Up 'Baseless' Threatened 'Richard Jewell' Lawsuit Movie Has Disclaimer At Conclusion The film asserts that tip, and pressure from Scruggs, led the newspaper to tear up its front page to run a story under the headline, “FBI Suspects ‘Hero’ Guard May Have Planted Bomb.” That created the media maelstrom that upended Jewell’s life, as depicted in the Eastwood-directed drama that Warner Bros opens Friday. The newspaper, in turn, has criticized the film’s depiction of Kathy Scruggs - who broke the story with Ron Martz that the FBI was eyeing Jewell as its prime suspect - as a promiscuous crime reporter who essentially traded a sexual encounter with an FBI agent for the tip. EXCLUSIVE: In his first comments addressing the controversy surrounding Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell, which has culminated in a threatened defamation lawsuit by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the film’s screenwriter Billy Ray assailed the newspaper for failing to own up to its role in destroying the life of the security guard who spotted a suspicious backpack under a bench at an outdoor concert in Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics and helped move bystanders away before an explosion left two dead and more than 100 injured. ![]()
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