This is Hollywood’s golden age for investigative journalism. On the heels of Spotlight’s Oscar triumphs, Shock and Awe, a similarly themed movie to be directed by Rob Reiner, is scheduled to go into production later this year.
The screenplay, written by Joey Hartstone, who is also the screenwriter for Reiner’s upcoming film LBJ, tells the tale of the Knight Ridder team that got the story of Saddam’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction right in the run-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, when just about everyone else got it wrong.