- THE KENNEDY DETAIL
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Stephen Gyllenhaal has signed as screenwriter and director
of The Kennedy Detail, which focuses on the men of the Secret Service
protective detail assigned to President John F. Kennedy.
The project is targeted for a November, 2013 release,
coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination. “This is the
project of a lifetime and I could not be more excited to be part of it,” said
Gyllenhaal. “Everyone knows how this story ends, but the true stories told
through the eyes of this extraordinary band of brothers, from JFK’s election to
that awful day in Dallas, have never been told. It is time to share their
perspective with the world”.
Gyllenhaal has begun
work on the script with his research including interviews with many of the
surviving members of President Kennedy’s protective detail and their family
members.
The film will be based on the New York Times best-selling
book The Kennedy Detail by former agent Gerald Blaine and award-winning
journalist Lisa McCubbin, with a foreword by former agent Clint Hill. Hill has
signed as a special advisor to the project, and McCubbin and Hill will be
associate producers.
Production is expected to begin late January 2013.
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