The duo, who won a Pulitzer Prize (along with the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow) for their 2017 investigation into the sexual assault of the formerly untouchable film producer, helped ignite the #MeToo movement and several subsequent investigations into abuse of power. . The film, from unorthodox director Maria Schrader and adapted for the screen by Ida and Colette author Rebecca Lenkiewicz, depicts the months-long investigation of Kantor (Zoe Kazan) and Twohey (Carey Mulligan), who “together cracked one of the most important stories. in a generation,” according to Universal Pictures’ official synopsis. It tells “a story that helped propel the #MeToo movement, broke decades of silence around the issue of sexual assault in Hollywood, and changed American culture forever.” Nearly two years after the series of stories were published in The Times and The New Yorker, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison on charges of sexual assault and third-degree rape. He is due to go on trial in Los Angeles in October for rape and sexual assault. The trailer depicts Kantor’s first foray into the story, her collaboration with Twohey, and the efforts of journalists to break the culture of silence surrounding Weinstein’s victims, many of whom are bound by NDAs not to speak about their experiences. Mulligan has been nominated for two Oscars, for An Education and Promising Young Woman. She will next be seen opposite Adam Sandler in Spaceman and Bradley Cooper in the Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro. She Said also stars Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher and Samantha Morton. It will premiere on November 18 ahead of a planned fall film festival premiere.
