In a new statement, Warner Bros. called the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's allegations about the film 'baseless,' and vowed to 'vigorously defend against them”
the film is based on) alleging that the film’s portrayal of the late Kathy Scruggs, the reporter who covered the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, was “false and malicious,” as well as defamatory and damaging. On Tuesday, the studio fired back, refusing to yield to the defamation claims.
plays Scruggs, the late reporter who covered the story and first reported that Jewell, who was initially hailed a hero for finding the bomb, had actually become the FBI’s top suspect .AJC Warner Bros. disputes that, saying “the film is based on a wide range of highly credible source material.”
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