{"id":265,"date":"2015-03-26T23:31:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=265"},"modified":"2015-03-26T23:31:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:31:06","slug":"james-franco-and-jonah-hills-true-story-about-a-journalist-and-an-accused-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"James Franco and Jonah Hill\u2019s \u2018True Story,\u2019 About a Journalist and an Accused Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The A-list cast discusses True Story, which tells the real-life tale of Mike Finkel, a disgraced New York Times journalist who develops a close bond with a suspected killer.
\nIn December 2001, Mike Finkel, a prolific New York Times Magazine journalist, was roped into the most bizarre story of his career. An Oregonian by the name of Christian Longo, who had been accused of brutally murdering his wife and children, had used his name as an alias while he was a fugitive on the run. Then, Finkel\u2019s career came crashing down when his Times Magazine cover story on the life of a young Ivory Coast laborer on a cocoa plantation, \u201cIs Youssouf Mal\u00e9 a Slave?,\u201d was proven to include fabricated and conflated facts. So Finkel, in an effort to repair his name, pursued the Longo story and attempted to get to the bottom of why he used his name, and whether this charismatic, attractive accused killer really did what they say he did.<\/p>\n

True Story, directed by Rupert Goold, tells the \u201ctrue story\u201d of Finkel (Jonah Hill) and Longo\u2019s (James Franco) complex relationship. The more Finkel learns about Longo, the more he begins to empathize with him\u2014and believes he may be innocent. All this doesn\u2019t sit well with Finkel\u2019s girlfriend, played by Oscar nominee Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), who begins to question whether the man she loves is once again committing a journalistic sin.<\/p>\n

Watch an exclusive behind the scenes video on \u201cThe True Story Behind True Story,\u201d featuring the A-list cast (Hill, Franco, and Jones) and crew discussing the strange case and the making of the film:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The A-list cast discusses True Story, which tells the real-life tale of Mike Finkel, a disgraced New York Times journalist who develops a close bond with a suspected killer. In December 2001, Mike Finkel, a prolific New York Times Magazine journalist, was roped into the most bizarre story of his career. An Oregonian by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}