Boston Marathon Bombing Is Headed To the Big Screen

Give the people behind the upcoming Boston Marathon bombing movie credit for waiting three whole months after the tragic event before they started thinking of a way to capitalize on it. That's far more respectable than the producers behind the upcoming Chilean miner film, who began developing it while they were still trapped and the situation at its most dire. But a movie about the Bombing is coming, and if it must happen at least it has some talented people behind it.

Deadline reports that Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, the writers behind David O. Russell's The Fighter, have picked up the film rights to Boston Strong, an upcoming book by Boston Herald reporter Dave Wedge and Casey Sherman, which looks at the impact of the April 15th attack on the city and the subsequent manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers.Tamasy and Johnson have already adapted another of Sherman's books, The Finest Hours, which has Robert Schwentke attached to direct and centers on an oil tanker crash in 1952.

This sounds like heavy material but the sort of story that Hollywood generally eats up with a spoon, and given the Boston locale it wouldn't be surprising to see talent come aboard that are closely associated with the city.