Producer John Davis has snapped up the rights to a book that should be required reading for Oliver Stone: for it casts a further shadow of doubt on the assassination of JFK.
Good Night, Dorothy Kilgallen is not a sequel to Good Night, And Good Luck. Instead, it’s a book by Paul Alexander about the mysterious death of the titular syndicated columnist, who was the only person to secure an interview with Jack Ruby, the assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Kilgallen was so shaken by the death of John F. Kennedy, whom she considered a friend, that she started her own investigation into the president’s assassination. The interview with Ruby would have formed the backbone of a book called Murder One, but Kilgallen died in mysterious circumstances soon after.
In his book, Alexander alleges that sensitive passages about JFK’s death simply disappeared from her book after her death. We smell a cover-up, which makes it sound like it could be an intriguing companion piece to Stone’s JFK.
Davis has asked Alexander to adapt his book into a script, under the supervision of executive producer Shane Salerno, who is a screenwriter by trade. (He wrote Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem, so you know that this is in safe hands…)
Davis will produce the film via his Davis Entertainment company, but he’ll bring the project to Fox for the big bucks.