Playtone company, headed up by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, are in the works to produce “Parkland” an upcoming indie drama about the assassination of the much loved Irish American former president of the United States John F Kennedy.
The movie, chronicling the events leading up to JFK’s assassination in Dallas in 1963 and Abraham Zapruder’s famous documentation of the event, reports Variety.
The title of the movie refers to the Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy was brought and was later pronounced dead. His assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died at Parkland two days later. Years later, Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby, also died there.
According to Variety the movie “will be an ensemble film that explores the impact the assassination had on a wide range of characters in and around Dallas on that fateful day, including an FBI agent, a young doctor, a reporter, several Secret Service agents, Kennedy's staff, Oswald's older brother, Jackie Kennedy and Zapruder.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Searlit | Aug 20, 2012, 11:23 PM EDT
That's not my post @ 12:37, IC.
Pittsburghkid | Aug 19, 2012, 02:24 PM EDT
The disgrace of Irish American gets another movie. I have a question. Did Joe Kennedy have a part death of Micheal Collins? All the money for the Irish Rebellion came from Boston, but none of the credit for the Irish Civil War. What side were the Kennedys on? Could the IRA have been in Dallas in '62? Could the IRA have teamed up with the Cuban's Kennedy double cross at the Bay of Pigs? Could Johnson's men been part of the team in Dallas? Nixon was in Dallas on 11/22/62, could his boys have been part of the team in Dallas? What about Jackies future husband? Of course we can not forget Hoffa, and the rest of the MAFIA? The Kennedy Assination is probably like Murder on the Orient Express.
Searlit | Aug 18, 2012, 11:29 PM EDT
@Woodman, I hope you're wrong about that. I would like to see a new perspective, not the same old 'magic bullet' theory.
Woodman | Aug 18, 2012, 09:20 PM EDT
Hanks is usually perpetuating the lie that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone killed JFK, so a fictional account of the event full of lies and distortions, suits him well.
Searlit | Aug 18, 2012, 02:43 PM EDT
I think Tom Hanks will do a fine movie about President Kennedy's assassination. I would love to work on a film like that.
Searlit | Aug 18, 2012, 12:37 PM EDT
"hope its not another hating on kennedys for the gaul of old joe's venture into hollywood and his hand in cleaning up wall street." Cleaning up Wall Street? Haha! Joe Kennedy wrote the book on corruption in finance! He was a thief, a bootlegger and am adulterer!
tomgallagher | Aug 18, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
Oh for god's sake,are we going to rehash all of that again.
cillowen | Aug 18, 2012, 10:28 AM EDT
hope its not another hating on kennedys for the gaul of old joe's venture into hollywood and his hand in cleaning up wall street.