Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’ Gets Fast-Tracked For Awards Season Release
By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 27, 2019 2:30 pm EST
Production on the biopic began just this June, giving Eastwood only six months to finish the film by the time its release date rolls round. It’s certainly a high turnover, but Warner Bros. seems intent on bringing Eastwood back to the awards season after last year’s box office monster The Mule, which he starred and directed in, failed to gain awards traction.
Richard Jewell, which has apparently dropped “The Ballad of” from the beginning of its title, stars Hauser as Jewell, the security guard whose “life was turned upside down after law enforcement leaked to a reporter that he was a possible suspect in the the 1996 Atlanta Olympics’ Olympic Park bombing,” according to Deadline. The film adapts the Vanity Fair story by Marie Brenner, which tells the true story of the security guard who quickly went from hero to villain in the eyes of the public after the FBI and the media named him the prime suspect. Jewell’s name was cleared 88 days later, but his reputation never recovered.Sam Rockwell is set to play Jewell’s lawyer, while Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Olivia Wilde also star.
Richard Jewell hits theaters on December 13, 2019.
