In the USA, the German director Maria Schrader is shooting a film about the Weinstein scandal. She focuses on the two journalists who brought down the Hollywood producer with their research. Now there is a first trailer for “She Said”.
Four months before the planned cinema release of the eagerly awaited film drama “She Said” by German director Maria Schrader, the first trailer is now online. The Universal Pictures studio released the almost three-minute video for the filmed exposure of the Weinstein scandal by two journalists.
Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan play New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who in the fall of 2017 made allegations of sexual abuse against film producer Harvey Weinstein public after difficult investigations. Together with Ronan Farrow of “New Yorker” magazine, they won a Pulitzer Prize for their revelations.
The trailer shows excerpts of the reporters meeting intimidated victims, visiting Weinstein employees, fighting with lawyers, being followed and discussing with supervisors whether the story can be published. One woman laments that the issue is bigger than Weinstein. It’s about a whole system that covers abusers.
The screenplay for “She Said” was written by British actress Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Brad Pitt is on board as a producer with his production company Plan B Entertainment. The film is slated to hit theaters in mid-November.
The abuse allegations against Weinstein made by dozens of women started the global MeToo movement in 2017. The star producer was finally sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York. Weinstein is currently being held in a Los Angeles jail awaiting another trial.
