Paramount has picked up the rights to the life story of crusading journalist Linda Trest – but rather than focus on the boring parts where she goes to the shop and the dentist, they’ve decided to go with the time when the Missouri-based journalist tracked down and stopped a conman who was posing as a drugs cop.
Not really surprising, when you consider the facts. Trest, now 51, was working for the Gasconade County Republican (it’s no Banbridge Chronicle), in the town of Gerald – a town ravaged by meth abuse – when she heard of a federal agent called Sgt. Bill who was clearing people out of their homes.
Nothing wrong with that, until Trest dug deeper and discovered that Sgt. Bill was – SPOILER ALERT! – just a regular guy named Bill A. Jakob, an unemployed cop with no law enforcement credentials.
Trest eventually exposed his crooked ways, and news of her crusading journalistic ways – an example to us all, even Empire – eventually reached Brad Pitt over at his production company, Plan B.
Pitt will put his increasingly large producer’s hat on for this movie, with David Benioff also examining spread sheets and budgets and whatnot. They’ve hired Anthony Walton and Andrew Dresher to turn Trest’s story into a coherent and currently untitled screenplay.
More busting false feds, we’re saying; less shopping for soup.