“Chappaquiddick” Movie Blasts Kennedy
Jeffrey Wells reports on a draft script of Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan‘s “Chappaquiddick” (dated 5.11.16, 131 pages), the Ted Kennedy implosion melodrama that will begin filming just after Labor Day. ‘The script is blistering, damning. A nightmarish atmosphere prevails. I was shaking my head as I read it last night, going “Jesus†and “Jesus H. Christ†over and over. In the somewhat similar manner of Oliver Stone‘s “Nixon” or “W.”, the script doesn’t strictly adhere to 100% verified fact (certain behaviors may have been exaggerated or invented and surely some of the dialogue has been imagined) but it does seem to follow the generally understood history of this wretched affair.’
