Patricia Arquette is ready to make her directorial debut with TriStar's Love Canal, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The Oscar winner will step behind the camera for the 1970s drama, which centers on a group of working-class housewives who live in the titular upstate New York neighborhood where massive amounts of toxic chemicals had been dumped. With no training or support, they took on the chemical industry, the government and the President himself.
Brad Desch wrote the script, based on Will Battersby documentary The Canal. Safe House’s Tory Tunnell is producing with Battersby, Arquette and 3 Arts’ Richard Abate. Joby Harold and Molly Madden...
The Oscar winner will step behind the camera for the 1970s drama, which centers on a group of working-class housewives who live in the titular upstate New York neighborhood where massive amounts of toxic chemicals had been dumped. With no training or support, they took on the chemical industry, the government and the President himself.
Brad Desch wrote the script, based on Will Battersby documentary The Canal. Safe House’s Tory Tunnell is producing with Battersby, Arquette and 3 Arts’ Richard Abate. Joby Harold and Molly Madden...
- 10/3/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Oscar winning actress Patricia Arquette will make her directorial debut at TriStar on Love Canal, a drama based on the Will Battersby documentary The Canal. Scripted by Brad Desch (Fathers and Daughters), the drama will focus on extraordinary group of working class housewives from Love Canal, New York who took on the government and the chemical industry in the 70s. With no training or support, they got the President himself to move their families from homes…...
- 10/3/2017
- Deadline
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