File this one under “too soon.” It’s been only three months since the horrific Boston Marathon bombing, but Hollywood is already working at adapting the events into a feature film.
According to Deadline, screenwriting Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy have acquired the rights to the currently unpublished novel Boston Strong, which takes its name from the mantra used to rally support following the attacks. The book, from true crime novelist Casey Sherman and Boston Herald’s Dave Wedge, is aiming for a release next year, but this scripting duo are getting a head start on the process.
Famous for 2010’s The Fighter (whose director David O. Russell was, oddly, in Boston filming American Hustle at the time of these events), the pair will adapt the book which “examines the city’s reaction” to the attacks on April 15th, resulting in a manhunt to find the terrorist brothers, leading to the capture of the surviving Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The duo know this surrounding territory well after their Lowell-set boxing drama, so hopefully they can do justice to this story. One can’t be surprised Hollywood is getting a jump at bringing these events to the screen, but considering there is likely more information to be unveiled regarding the events, we expect there is still a ways to go before we actually see further movement.
Do you think this duo is the right fit to tell this story? Is it too soon to tell it?