Richard Jewell
Richard Jewell is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Billy Ray. It is based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article "American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell" by Marie Brenner and the 2019 book The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle by Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen. The film depicts the July 27, 1996, Centennial Olympic Park bombing and its aftermath, as security guard Richard Jewell finds a bomb during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and alerts authorities to evacuate, only to later be wrongly accused of having placed the device himself. Paul Walter Hauser stars as Jewell, supported by Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Olivia Wilde.
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| Country | United States
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- The TV interviews between Katie Couric and Richard Jewell after the bombing show the real Richard Jewell interviews. The sound is replaced with voice-overs for Richard added by Paul Walter Hauser.
- Coca-Cola was a commercial sponsor of the 1996 Summer Olympics, which makes it historically accurate for Coke products to be featured in the movie. Coca-Cola is an Atlanta-based company; during the 1996 Summer Olympics, they provided soft drinks exclusively at Olympics venues and also built an 8-acre attraction called Coca-Cola Olympic City adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
- Filming of the concerts and bombing scenes took place in the same location as the original incident site of Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park.
- Richard Jewell died on August 29, 2007, at the age of 44; according to the autopsy, cause of death was severe heart disease with diabetes and related complications.
- The book that Watson Bryant reads in his office is Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.
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