[Movies] Felicity Jones Joins the Cast of True Story Posted by Larry Csonka on 02.05.2013
Along with James Franco and Jonah Hill…
According to Deadline, Felicity Jones has joined the cast of True Story. The film will also star James Franco and Jonah Hill, and is based on the Michael Finkel memoir, "True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa." Here is the synopsis of the book…
On February 2002, New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel received a startling piece of news: a young man named Christian Longo, wanted for killing his entire family, had been captured in Mexico, where he'd taken on a new identity: Michael Finkel of the New York Times.
The next day, on page A-3 of the Times, came another troubling item: a note from the editors explaining that Finkel, having falsified parts of an investigative article, had been fired. Nonetheless, the only journalist Longo would speak with was the real Michael Finkel, and so Finkel placed a call to Oregon's Lincoln County jail, intent on getting the true story. So began a bizarre and intense relationship—a reporting job that morphed into a shrewd game of cat-and-mouse. Part mystery, part memoir, part mea culpa, True Story weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.
Hill will play the part of Finkel with Franco taking on the role of Longo and Jones playing the part of Finkel's girlfriend.
