Two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner has now signed on to take the lead in fact-based conspiracy thriller KILL THE MESSENGER. The film is based on the story of Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist Gary Webb, who is said to have ‘killed himself’ with two bullets to the head at the age of 48 after being the target of a smear campaign. This after discovering links to the CIA, with a scheme to arm Contra rebels in Nicaragua and the import of cocaine into California.
KILL THE MESSENGER is written by Peter Landesman and based on the non-fiction novels ‘Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion’, by Webb, and Nick Schou’s ‘Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb’. DEXTER and HOMELAND regular Michael Cuesta is attached to direct.
Source: Deadline
Craig was our great north east correspondent, proving that it’s so ‘grim up north’ that losing yourself in a world of film is a foregone prerequisite. He has been studying the best (and often worst) of both classic and modern cinema at the University of Life for as long as he can remember. Craig’s favorite films include THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, JFK, GOODFELLAS, SCARFACE, and most of John Carpenter’s early work, particularly THE THING and HALLOWEEN.
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