‘The Statement,’ Director Tom McCarthy
At a Florida beachside resort, circa 1980, twenty scientists, activists and policymakers gather for a weekend conference on a curious new issue — CO2 emissions — with one congressional mandate, to “write a statement about what to do.”
Tom McCarthy’s darkly comic origin story of the climate debate, is adapted from Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth with Jacques Audiard’s regular writers Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré.
The superlative cast includes Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, John Turturro, Tatiana Maslany, Amy Ryan, Evan Peters and Jason Clarke.
McCarthy’s Spotlight world-premiered on the Venice Film Fest in 2015 on the way to winning the Best Picture Oscar.
This is McCarthy’s first feature since Stillwater bowed to mixed response at the Cannes Fest five years ago.
Sony Pictures Classics would prefer to repeat Spotlight‘s playbook, but cameras only rolled in St. Petersburg, Florida this spring, which could make a fall festival bow a stretch.
The film hasn’t yet been dated.
