Hollywood’s heroic Comey story collapses

By TIM GRAHAM

May 10, 2020 at 6:25 a.m.

"If the “first rough draft of history” in the news media sounds dubious, the second draft made by Hollywood will almost certainly be worse. I’m talking about movies and TV shows, which will inevitably be pressed to dramatize things so they are ever more loosely “based on real events.”

CBS has been preparing a miniseries based on former FBI Director James Comey’s memoir, pompously titled “A Higher Loyalty.” In the memoir, he lectured, “Ethical leaders choose a higher loyalty to those core values over their own personal gain.” But the personal gain was sweet for Comey.

First came the high-roller book deal with 850,000 copies, heavily promoted by all the Democrat-repeating networks. In Comey’s case, that included an hourlong prime-time ABC “news” special during which he was interviewed by that nonpartisan George Stephanopoulos. The book sold like hotcakes to Trump haters. Add some more millions for his optioning the book to Hollywood for “entertainment.”

Production was slated to begin last November, but there’s no word if it was anywhere near done before the coronavirus pandemic kicked in. Apparently, CBS Television Studios hasn’t even decided where this Heroic Comey miniseries will land, either on Showtime or the CBS All Access streaming service, where it would be an easy match with the network’s Trump-trashing drama “The Good Fight.”"

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