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EXCLUSIVE: With nan latest conflict betwixt America and Iran jacking up substance prices and airfares astir nan globe, Netflix and Imagine Documentaries person a formation scheme for Rory Kennedy‘s follow-up to Downfall: The Case Against Boeing.
First exclusively reported by Deadline backmost successful July 2024, Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing will debut each complete nan satellite connected nan streamer connected August 19.
“After Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, which exposed Boeing’s domiciled successful nan decease of 346 people, I hoped nan institution would support to its connection and move toward existent change: a renewed committedness to safety, transparency, and accountability,” nan Oscar nominated and Emmy winning Kennedy told Deadline coming of her 2022 movie and Freefall. “But a relentless cascade of terrifying incidents—and nan abrupt decease of whistleblower John Barnett—made it clear we had to support pushing.”
The Moxie Films co-founder added: “The resulting film, Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing, is astatine erstwhile a startling and profoundly concerning image told from nan inside—through nan voices of workers who person risked everything to travel guardant and nan families taking connected 1 of nan astir powerful corporations successful nan world.”
We person a first look astatine nan Mark Bailey penned Freefall here:
The latest docu from nan UTA-repped Kennedy, Freefall is produced by Moxie Films and Imagine Documentaries pinch Brian Grazer and Ron Howard arsenic EPs. Kennedy, Bailey, Viva Van Loock, Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes, and Alexandra Korba are producers.
Kennedy’s astir caller movie was Queen of Chess, which premiered earlier this twelvemonth astatine nan past Sundance Film Festival to beryllium held successful Park City, Utah. Full disclosure, I appeared successful nan filmmaker’s erstwhile documentary The Trial of Alec Baldwin. Along pinch Amy Redford, Drew Goddard, Adele Lim and Cord Jefferson, Kennedy is group to subordinate a sheet astatine this year’s Milken Global Conference tomorrow.
