The sad story of the Jonestown Massacre is hitting the big screen in a new film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Chloe Grace Moretz, titled “White Night.”
According to Variety, director Anne Sewitsky (“A Very British Scandal”) is set to helm the thriller, “White Night,” about Jim Jones and the mass suicide at Jonestown. The film will star Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the cult leader, Jim Jones, with Chloe Grace Moretz playing one of the cult’s inner circle members. For those unaware, back in the late-‘70s, Jones led his cult members to an isolated location near Guyana where they started a settlement called Jonestown. However, in 1978, the cult leader poisoned his followers, resulting in a mass suicide that took the lives of more than 900 people.
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“Debbie Layton’s ‘Seductive Poison’ was the first book Anne Carey and I optioned at Archer Gray, and it formed the foundation of our mission to help give voice to the stories it was time to hear,” said producer Amy Nauiokas. “Debbie’s incredible journey with the People’s Temple deserves an audience across generations. It should serve as warning about the power a certain type of charismatic leader can have and the very real lessons to be learned from our history.”
Gordon-Levitt has recently been seen in films such as “Project Power” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” He’s next going to be seen in the Showtime series, “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber.” Moretz recently starred in projects such as “Shadow in the Cloud,” “Mother/Android,” and “Tom and Jerry.” Her next project is the upcoming sci-fi series, “The Peripheral,” coming soon to Amazon.
There’s no release date or distributor attached to “White Night” just yet, but it’s hard to imagine this won’t get scooped up soon enough.