Warner Bros. and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution are trading barbs over how journalist Kathy Scruggs was portrayed in Clint Eastwood's film 'Richard Jewell.'
The scribes behind "Richard Jewell" included a plot line in which journalist Kathy Scruggs, played by Olivia Wilde, offers a federal agent sex in exchange for a scoop.
That depiction of Scruggs and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the paper she worked for at the time, has drawn criticism, particularly from the current staff at the AJC., Eastwood, and several other people associated with the film a letter threatening legal action unless a disclaimer was added to the film and a public statement was made by the studio acknowledging that "some events were imagined for dramatic purposes.
"Richard Jewell," which arrives in theaters Friday, is about how the media reported on a bombing that took place during the 1996 Summer Olympics and how the FBI conducted their investigation into who planted the bomb. "Richard Jewell" currently has this disclaimer at the end of the film: "The film is based on actual historical events. Dialogue and certain events and characters contained in the film were created for the purposes of dramatization."
"There is no disputing that Richard Jewell was an innocent man whose reputation and life were shredded by a miscarriage of justice," Warner Bros. said. "It is unfortunate and the ultimate irony that
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