Kill the Messenger (2. IMDb. Various members of the cast and crew have admitted to receiving government- level "push back" to the film, both during filming and in post- production.
Star Jeremy Renner was initially in talks to star as political whistle- blower Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate (2. Renner ultimately turned down the role and moved forward instead with Kill the Messenger (2. In the late 1. 98. Gary Webb had returned with his family to his home state of California, joining the staff of the newspaper the San Jose Mercury News. Webb was already a respected journalist.
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Furthering his reputation at the latter paper, Webb was in 1. Mercury News reporters to win a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the Loma Prieta Earthquake. A few years later, in the summer of 1. The message was from a woman named Coral Baca. Webb had done a Mercury News story on the U. S. A Government's seizures of property from suspected drug dealers, and Baca had read the piece with considerable interest, since her boyfriend, Rafael Cornejo had been in prison for three years on cocaine- related charges. Webb, who chased down every lead and contact, returned the call and met with his unlikely source.
Baca told Webb that Cornejo had never been tried but that the government had seized all of his physical property anyway. Webb didn't know what to make of her account until she told him that the government's chief witness against her boyfriend was a drug lord named Danilo Blandon, responsible for smuggling tons of cocaine into the U. S. A, and that she had documents to prove his affiliation with the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). A year of intense investigation, both in the U. S. A and abroad, followed for Webb, who then broke the story which would eventually break him. Webb's August 1. 99. Mercury News was entitled "Dark Alliance".
The three pieces ran simultaneously in print and online, with unprecedented website supplements of videos and documents. Webb reported that drug traffickers working with the CIA- backed Nicaraguan Contras were importing massive amounts of cocaine into Los Angeles in California, USA where dealers flooded the streets during the crack epidemic, most damagingly in South Central L. A. The articles' bigger revelation was that profit from the drug sales was used to fund the Ronald Reagan White House supported Contra militia fighting a civil war in Nicaragua, which was in clear violation of the Boland Amendment prohibiting support of the war. A year after Gary Webb passed away, journalist Nick Schou approached the Webb family to get their blessing on doing a book about Gary. Schou reflected: "I was shocked that no one else had already done it.
I wrote the book because Gary's legacy hasn't been fully understood. When he died, the obituaries unfairly tagged him as a 'discredited reporter'. Schou added: "I can't remember how many rejection letters I got before Nation Books published 'Kill the Messenger', but I had this passion to get his story told and set the record straight.". Director Michael Cuesta said that the film was "Jeremy Renner's greatest performance since The Hurt Locker (2. Actor Jeremy Renner said: "The reaction to the 'Dark Alliance' series proved that Gary ['Gary Webb (II)] was doing something right.
Ruffling feathers, that's good investigative journalism,' to quote Gary. But when the Mercury News wouldn't stand by him, that was the ultimate betrayal, crushing him. For the Watergate investigations at The Washington Post in the 1. Ben Bradlee [Benjamin C. Bradlee] had Woodward [Bob Woodward] and Bernstein [Carl Bernstein]s' backs; Gary didn't have a Ben Bradlee. Gary's life and his identity were very much tied to his work, and that being taken away from him was tragic.". Following in Gary Webb's footsteps and charting his own course deeper "inside the Beltway" than Webb had been able to, screenwriter Peter Landesman spoke to a wealth of sources.
He interviewed not the "name" drug kingpins but rather the traffickers and pilots who moved cocaine into the U. S. He talked to Webb's contemporaries. He met with the CIA's onetime "head of clandestine operations in Latin America." Landesman marveled: "Everyone, even the bad guys, want to be heard. People who were on the ground abroad, or got screwed or forgotten want their stories told.". At different points in the early production stages, actors Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise were in talks to play the role of Gary Webb, which in the end was cast with actor Jeremy Renner. To get at the true story while also firmly placing it in a narrative context, screenwriter Peter Landesman had contacted source author Nick Schou before the latter's book was even published. Watch Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox Online. Landesman began work on the script in 2.
Landesman recounted: "I was an investigative journalist for The New York Times Magazine for many years, and I came to realize that there are some stories that are simply just too true to tell; Gary Webb wanted to do his job and expose a corruption the government didn't want exposed, and the public, ultimately, was uncomfortable knowing. This screenplay became a personal mission for me. Gary's not succumbing to personal and professional pressure to walk away from what he'd discovered, and the price he paid for holding his ground, is a cautionary tale among professional investigative reporters.
Also, I had a similar experience with a 2. Times Magazine cover story on sex trafficking and slavery that caused a similar firestorm.
The difference was that the story, and I, were ultimately vindicated. Gary was a heroic, complicated, flawed man I could relate and connect to. His story needed to be a movie." Schou remarked: "As a former journalist, Peter had his own sources who could weigh in on all of this.
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But I made myself available to him to answer any questions he had about things I published, and things I hadn't published.". Spike Lee expressed interest in directing the film before director Michael Cuesta signed on to direct Kill the Messenger (2. Director Michael Cuesta commented: "Gary [Gary Webb, played in the film by Jeremy Renner] was like a Doberman. His scrappy, insistent way of getting at the facts, and his ardent belief in the public's right to know the truth, was paramount to him. He was a reporter of the people, of the proletariat. He had a pure sense of what truth and justice means.
He was a real guy that liked punk bands and hockey. He was not afraid to go toe- to- toe with the bigwigs.
