Richard Jewell is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Billy Ray, based on the 1997 article "American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell" by Marie Brenner, published in Vanity Fair.[2] The film depicts the Centennial Olympic Park bombing during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and its aftermath, where security guard Richard Jewell found a bomb and alerted authorities to evacuate, only to later be wrongly accused of having placed it himself. It stars Paul Walter Hauser as Jewell, alongside Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Olivia Wilde.

The film had its world premiere at AFI Fest on November 20, 2019, and is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on December 13, 2019, by Warner Bros. Pictures.



Director
Clint Eastwood

Producer
Tim Moore
Jessica Meier
Kevin Misher
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jennifer Davisson
Jonah Hill
Clint Eastwood

Cast
Paul Walter Hauser as Richard Jewell
Sam Rockwell as Watson Bryant
Kathy Bates as Barbara "Bobi" Jewell
Jon Hamm as Tom Shaw
Olivia Wilde as Kathy Scruggs
Ian Gomez as Agent Dan Bennet
Dylan Kussman as Bruce Hughes
Wayne Duvall as Polygraph Examiner
Mike Pniewski as Brandon Hamm
Nina Arianda as Nadya

Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures

Trailer


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