The Hollywood Reporter announced Tuesday that Dreamworks and Participant Media have obtained the rights to the Boston Globe’s yearlong investigation of clergy sex abuse in Massachusetts.
The investigation by the Globe’s “Spotlight Team” of reporters and editors led to the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston. The 2002 revelations have had worldwide repercussions for the Catholic church that continue today in terms of allegations, settlements and pastoral policy.
The Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the scandal in 2003.
Tom McCarthy, who wrote and directed “The Visitor,” “The Stations Agent” and “WinWin” will direct and co-script the film with veteran television writer Josh Singer.
(I wrote this post for the National Catholic Reporter this morning; I wonder from which or whose perspective they will tell the story? Visions of “All the President’s Men” come to mind – about the Watergate coverup – and it is a film I can watch whenever it is on. But how to tell this story? I think Tom McCarthy has some of the strongest human stories out there that are infused with what I believe is a strong sense of Catholic spirituality – or one that is consistent with a Christian view of the human person. So I hope that this will be a film marked by McCarthy’s established integrity. )
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