Letters of Death
A week after the 9/11 attacks, America, still in shock, was shocked by another event: someone began mailing letters with anthrax spores. According to Deadline, 20th Century Fox intends to make a film about this crime.Major has acquired the film rights to Pulitzer Prize-winning David Willman's book The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and America's Rush to War. The work tells about the events that began to occur on September 18, 2001. Within three weeks, letters were mailed containing anthrax spores. Several of them ended up in the offices of major media companies, and two were for Senators Tom Dashle and Patrick Leahy. As a result, five people died from infection, 17 were infected. According to the FBI, the investigation into this case has become one of the largest and most difficult in history. At first, microbiologist Stephen Hatfill was considered the main suspect, but he was eventually acquitted, and the culprit turned out to be Hatfill's colleague, a scientist named Bruce Edwards Ivins, who worked in a government laboratory in Fort Detrick. He came to the attention of the FBI in 2005, and two years later he was put under surveillance. Ivins committed suicide in July 2008, and a week later, based on DNA results, the FBI found him the sole culprit in sending dangerous letters. The case was officially closed in 2010, although the US National Academy of Sciences questioned the Bureau's findings.  The project will be produced by Stephen Zellian (Red Sparrow) and Sybill Louis (Gate of Darkness). And although Zellian will limit himself to only producing functions this time, he knows a lot about good stories: the Oscar winner has scripts for such films as Schindler's List, Gangs of New York, Gangster and The Man who changed everything. " Zellian's latest work includes The Irishman by Martin Scorsese. The Topic of Article: Letters of Death. |
