The film about one of America’s most prolific mass murderers will be released in theaters …
Gosnell, a movie about an infamous abortion doctor convicted of murder that is being financed via a crowdfunding campaign, has hired, as its director, Nick Searcy.
The actor is best known for his role as chief deputy U.S. Marshal Art Mullen in Justified, now in its sixth and final season on FX.
Gosnell has raised $2.3 million at Indiegogo, more than any other movie at the crowdfunding site. Originally planned as a TV movie, producers Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinney and Magdalena Segieda now say it will be a theatrical release.
Executive producing is John Sullivan, who co-directed Dinesh D’Souza’s two documentary films, America and 2016: Obama’s America. Gosnell is being written by Andrew Klavan, whose novel True Crime was made into a movie starring and directed by Clint Eastwood.
Gosnell is a crime drama — not a documentary — about Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who for decades ran a seedy abortion clinic in Philadelphia. […]
The report, details of which will be used by Klavan while crafting his script, alleges Gosnell killed hundreds of infants by sticking scissors into their necks, though he was convicted two years ago on only three counts of murder as well as one count of manslaughter for the death of a 41-year-old patient. The 74-year-old former doctor is serving a life sentence in prison.
Also part of the story that Searcy, Klavan and the other filmmakers plan to tell is what some have likened to a press cover-up of Gosnell’s brutality. Journalist Megan McArdle, for example, wrote a mea culpa in 2013 published in the Daily Beast titled: “Why I didn’t write about Gosnell’s trial — and why I should have.” The article included a photo of rows of empty courtroom benches that had been reserved for the press.
“There are three aspects to this story that are fascinating,” said Searcy. “What happened; why it was allowed to happen; and why no one wanted to talk about it after it happened.”
what’s exciting is that this movie won’t just be preaching to the choir
this will be a blockbuster to where there will be a sea change on this issue
The reason no one (she worked with) wanted to talk about it was the same reason they didn’t want to talk about it the last 30 million times it happened.
Frankly, Gosnell was prosecuted for sloppiness, not murder. The murder part is all down to timing and technique.
If your position is insane, that has the benefit of eliminating the messy interchange of debate.
Yep.
We don’t need orcs and trolls and goblins. We can be the monsters, too.
Monsters, monsters, but the private ones are limited in the damage they do compared to the ones that have government support and/or approval.
Check your human privilege. All those orcs and trolls and goblins have families to feed, but you with your “humans only need apply” are committing genocide!
Private sector monsters make nightmares, public sector monsters make statistics.