Screenwriter Billy Ray has
according to Variety been tapped to pen The Ballad of Richard Jewell starring Leonardo
DiCaprio and Jonah Hill.
Ray will base the screenplay on
Marie Brenner's 1997 Vanity Fair article – The Ballad of Richard Jewell, which
recounts the story and events of the hero who discovered a backpack with a bomb
during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and was subsequently vilify after becoming a
suspect.
Jonah Hill will play the Jewel
role while DiCaprio will play the role of Jewel's lawyer, a Southern attorney
who mostly did real estate closings and seemed in over his head, but he guided
Jewel through a hellish Twilight Zone that went on even after the FBI officially
cleared Jewel's name.
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