Summary
State of Play did indeed start life in 2003 as a six-part BBC series, though in writing it, Paul Abbott paid homage to two breeds of movie conspiracy thrillers The Parallax View. The "ink good, digital bad" message of State of Pl ay would be ill-judged even if the film didn't come with the obligatory slick website (www. stateofplaymovie .net), and if the screenwriting team did not include Billy Ray - whose own movie, Shattered Glass, concerned a real -life Washington journalist who made up stories, proving that integrity is not synonymous with the printed word.
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Don't Hold the Front Page
Don't hold the front page
Ryan GilbeyHollywood bungles an adaptation of a thriller about crimebusting journalistsState of Play (12A)dir: Kevin Macdonald"Corporate conspiracies that threaten the highest levels?" splutters a de...See the full content of this document
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