It’s the story that shook Hollywood. Again in 2017, two New York Instances reporters – Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor – labored collectively tirelessly to interrupt some of the vital and very important tales in current reminiscence, exposing many years of silence round sexual assault within the movie business, triggering the downfall of Harvey Weinstein, and launching the #MeToo motion. The 2 journalists documented their investigation in a bestselling guide, She Mentioned, which has been tailored for the massive display – and the primary trailer for the movie is now on-line. Watch it under.

Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as Twohey and Kantor respectively, and the supporting forged contains Samantha Morton as Weinstein’s former assistant Zelda Perkins, plus Andre Braugher as Dean Baquet and Patricia Clarkson as Rebecca Corbett, each of whom have been NYT editors on the time. Emmy award-winner Maria Schrader, who helmed the Netflix’s vastly profitable word-of-mouth present Unorthodox, is within the director’s chair, and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, whose earlier work contains Colette and Disobedience, has written the screenplay.

This preliminary NYT story had staggering ramifications on the time, beginning a much-needed dialog round misogyny and sexual abuse within the business, and empowering big numbers of individuals to come back ahead and share their tales. Motion pictures like Highlight present that these sort of journalistic dramas may be extremely compelling – however what is especially fascinating within the case of She Mentioned is that that is Hollywood dramatising its personal revelations. Can it accomplish that with all of the rigour and depth this story wants? We’ll discover out when She Mentioned hits cinemas on 18 November.