Matt Damon May Star In Catholic Church Sex Scandal Film

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Earlier today it was announced that Damon is the front runner to star in a new film that will open up about one particular Catholic Church sex scandal that took place in Damon’s home of Boston. While it isn’t certain who Damon will play, the film is said to be a highly charged drama and is aiming to be in the same vein as All The President’s Men.

According to indieWIRE the Church Sex scandal film that Damon is considering will:

“Center on the journalists at the Boston Globe — Michael Rezendes, Sacha Pfeiffer and Matt Carroll, Spotlight Team Editor Walter “Robby” Robinson, Special Projects Editor Ben Bradlee Jr. and Globe Editor Marty Baron — who discovered and exposed that Cardinal Bernard Law, America’s Senior Catholic Prelate, was protecting priests accused of assault, by moving them to different parishes, where they offended again.”

This report won the group of journalists a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 and since then the project for the film has been developing for quite some time. At the time Globe editor Martin Baron said: “There was just a real determination to tell the whole truth, not just a piece of it, not just a slice.” Currently the script is being worked on by Josh Singer, who’s popular for his work on The West Wing, and more recently Fringe.

http://www.inquisitr.com/702368/matt-damon-may-star-in-catholic-church-sex-scandal-film/

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1. Kicking & Update: DreamWorks Has Pulled Out

Article from Thursday 6/13. Weird, since your article is dated 6/14:

DreamWorks Bails on Movie About Catholic Priest Sex Scandal

DreamWorks has decided not to go forward with director Tom McCarthy’s untitled feature about the Catholic Church’s cover-up of its pedophile priests in Massachusetts, uncovered by the Boston Globe.

Participant Media is still on board as producers and is shopping the film around town with Warner Bros. as the projected front-runner to land the drama.

Variety reported in October that “Win Win” helmer McCarthy and scribe Josh Singer (“The West Wing”) had been tapped by Anonymous Content and Rocklin/Faust to work on the project, which follows the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who exposed the scandal.

Matt Damon is rumored to be McCarthy’s first choice for the lead but sources close to Damon say the actor has not even read the script yet.

http://ca.movies.yahoo.com/news/dreamworks-bails-catholic-sex-scandal-movie-015330517.html?.tsrc=emul?date=20130604

Meanwhile, we can still catch the very good 2005 TV movie about the scandal, "Our Fathers." It also focused on the Boston Globe journalists. With Ted Danson, Brian Dennehy and Christopher Plummer as an especally greasy and manipulative Cardinal Law(less):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421108/

And here's a article on "The 5 Most Damning Films About Catholic Child Abuse:"

http://theweek.com/article/index/201852/5-most-damning-films-about-catholic-child-abuse