The story of New York Times reporters Jodie Kantor and Megan Twohey’s investigation into Harvey Weinsten is set for the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The pair won a Pulitzer Prize (alongside The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow) for their roles in uncovering the film mogul’s historic sexual assault abuses on women in the film industry.
And now Plan B, the production company co-founded by Brad Pitt, have picked up the rights to create a film around the momentous story.
The company has previously been responsible for Oscar winners 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight, and are teaming up with Annapurna, the media banner responsible for Detroit and Phantom Thread.
The movie will focus on the journalists’ fearlessness in the face of intimidation from Hollywood figures who wanted to brush Weinstein’s crimes under the carpet.
The story, entitled ‘Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers For Decades’, appeared on 5 October and included on-the-record quotes accusing the successful producer of sexual assault.
More and more accusers came forward as the story gathered steam, and Weinstein was eventually pushed out of his own production company, which filed for bankruptcy this year.
