Series of Caroline Suh Louis CK After all, documentaries may not see the light of day. In Monday, Diversity reported that Showtime chose not to continue with the project, and it is currently unclear if it will be picked up elsewhere.
Suh is best known for directing Netflix Blackpink: Light up the skyas well as the 2008 documentary Our forefathers. She also adapted and directed Fatty Acid Salt Heat because Netflix. Based on DiversityHer documentary will examine both CK and his disgrace — fueled by allegations of sexual misconduct against the comedian — and how the #MeToo movement has grown as a result. how since then.
Last year at the Edinburgh Television Festival, David Nevins—then top executive at Paramount Global—speak that the CK documentary “will address all of the ‘where are we’ questions four, five years after the Weinstein story broke.” (EQUAL Diversity note, Nevins resigned last fall during a corporate restructuring.)
Representatives for both Suh and Amanda Branson-Gill, who are believed to be involved in producing the project, did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment.
New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor, Cara Buckley and Melena Ryzik for the first time denied the allegation against CK from five different women in 2017. All of these women describe cases where, according to an unnamed source, he had “abused his power”. All five women allege that the comedian pulled out his penis and masturbated in front of them.
Immediately after the story broke, CK was forced to admit: “These stories are true.”
The comedian showed remorse, but less than a year later, he pamper alt-right throw away transgender And Parkland School Shooting Survivors under the funny bus as he captures the relevance. By 2021, he has booked a show at Madison Square Gardenand last year, he released a feature film titled Fourth of July, which The Daily Beast critic Nick Schager describes as “pretty terrible.”
Kantor, Buckley and Ryzik are all involved in Suh’s documentary, as Nevins told attendees of the Edinburgh Television Festival last year. (Journalists did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment on the fate of the project.) At the festival, Nevins also said he doesn’t believe the social problems stemming from #MeToo have already occurred. be solved.
“It’s really complicated,” Nevins said at the time. “And there was a bit of a backlash to #MeToo—(the question is often) who needs to leave and who is allowed to come back.”
Diversity did not report reasons for Showtime’s decision. The news came shortly after a Sunday report from hollywood reporter about how Showtime recently (and quietly) jerked an episode of Ron DeSantis in its news magazine Evil behavior.
