The Boston Catholic Church sex scandal not only shook Massachusetts, but reverberated over the world once it was finally revealed that priests were abusing young boys and covering it up. The story behind how that story broke is the subject of Spotlight, the new film from director Tom McCarthy. A trailer for the film was released today.
Spotlight gets its name from the Boston Globe Spotlight team, which exposed the scandal. Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Brian d’Arcy James play the reporters covering the scandal, while Liev Schreiber and John Slattery are their bosses. Stanley Tucci and Billy Crudup also star.
The film was produced by Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, and executive produced by Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Pierre Omidyar, Michael Bederman, Bard Dorros, Tom Ortenberg, Peter Lawson and Xavier Marchand.
Open Road Films has scheduled the film for a Nov. 6 release and it will be shown at both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals later this year.
McCarthy is the writer/director behind The Station Agent, The visitor, Win Win and Adam Sandler’s critically drubbed The Cobbler. He has an Oscar nomination for co-writing Pixar’s Up and also co-wrote the Spotlight script with Josh Singer (The Fifth Estate).
Based on the trailer, this does sound like an All The President’s Men knock-off, but with more actors yelling at each other in a desperate move to get an Oscar nomination. Hopefully, the rest of the film doesn’t let this top-tier cast down.
image courtesy of Kerry Hayes/Open Road Films
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