The long-awaited movie about notorious abortionist Kermit Gosnell has had one of the more interesting development cycles in the independent film scene.
After crowdfunding platform Kickstarter blocked the movie from accepting donations, the project’s producers turned to rival service Indiegogo for help. The response was unprecedented; the film has secured over $2.2 million in funding from more than 27,000 backers, making it the most successful fundraising effort for a single film in the platform’s history.
In December, Breitbart News reported that John Sullivan, co-producer of Dinesh D’Souza’s 2016: Obama’s America and last year’s America had signed on as executive producer on the Gosnell project. Andrew Klavan, whose book True Crime was turned into a film directed by Clint Eastwood, is writing the script.
Earlier this week, the project announced its director: Nick Searcy, best known for his role as chief deputy U.S. Marshal Art Mullen on the hit FX show Justified.
In his time in Hollywood, Searcy has earned a reputation as a straight-talking conservative who is willing to butt heads with some of the industry’s most prominent liberals. He tussled with Sean Penn last year and took Alec Baldwin to task on Twitter for comments the actor had made about gay people. The actor has a history of confronting difficult and controversial topics.
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