Richard Jewell
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Short description
Richard Jewell is a security guard working at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta when he spots an unattended backpack in Centennial Olympic Park and alerts the authorities. He helps clear the area before the device goes off, a response that limits the casualties of the bombing. The initial public reaction casts him as a hero who saved lives, but within days the FBI treats him as its leading suspect, and the news media turns his ordinary life and background into evidence of guilt. Isolated and under siege, Jewell turns to an independent lawyer, Watson Bryant, to defend his innocence against the weight of federal investigators and relentless press coverage.
Clint Eastwood directed the film, the thirty-eighth in the chronological run of his directing work, following The 15:17 to Paris and preceding Cry Macho. Billy Ray wrote the screenplay, and Eastwood produced alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill. Paul Walter Hauser plays Jewell, with Kathy Bates as his mother Bobi, Sam Rockwell as Bryant, Jon Hamm as an FBI agent, and Olivia Wilde as a reporter. The production had a budget of around 45 million dollars and took in roughly the same amount worldwide.
On IMDb the film holds 7.5 out of 10 from about 106,000 votes, while on TMDB it rates 7.4 from roughly 2,800. A critics' score of 6.9 from some 300 reviews sits below both audience figures.
What's left behind the scenes
- The Olympic rings are missing from the emblem of the Atlanta Olympics. Their use was prohibited by the IOC to protect copyright, as well as in the name of "protecting the use of the famous emblem".
- In reality, journalist Katie Scraggs (played by Olivia Wilde in the film) suffered from depression and was taking potent medications. She died of an overdose in 2001.
- The filming of the concert and the explosion took place in the same location where the actual events unfolded in Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympic Games. The explosion scene was filmed on the 23rd anniversary of the real explosion. A significant portion of the events were filmed on the same calendar days they actually occurred 23 years ago.
- Leonardo DiCaprio once considered starring in the film but ultimately served as a producer.
- One source of material for the film was the book 'The Suspect,' written by Kent Alexander (who at the time was a prosecutor in the state of Georgia) and Kevin (who served as an editor for The Wall Street Journal in Atlanta in the 1990s). Kathy Scruggs never revealed her source, unlike the book's authors, who stated it was FBI agent Don Johnson. He is depicted in the film under the fictional name Tom Shaw.
- Kathy Bates requested that a concert performance by her favorite artist, Kenny Rogers, be included in the film.
- Paul Walter Hauser gained 11 kilograms for his role as Richard.
- The filmmakers were criticized for a scene in which Katy Scruggs offers sexual favors in exchange for information. There was and is no evidence that this actually happened.
- The scene of the television interview with Richard conducted by Katie Couric after the explosion includes excerpts from the actual interviews Richard gave, though his replies were dubbed with the voice of Paul Walter Hauser.
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