BOSTON — Boston Globe reporters have inked a deal with film producers to bring an account of how they broke the Catholic sex abuse scandal to the silver screen.
Film producers Nicole Rocklin and Blye Faust have acquired the rights to the story of Globe reporters’ yearlong investigation into child sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston.
The investigation uncovered widespread abuse, won the paper a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 and led to a cascade of similar stories nationwide and widespread changes in how U.S. Catholic bishops protect children and deal with abuse allegations.
According to the website Deadline.com, the film producers imagine the movie will be similar to “All the President’s Men,” the 1976 film starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman about how Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate story that felled President Richard Nixon.
Globe Editor Martin Baron could not be immediately reached for comment.
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