Richard Jewell is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Billy Ray. It is based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article "American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell" by Marie Brenner and the 2019 book The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle by Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen.
Cast[]
- Paul Walter Hauser as Richard "Radar" Jewell
- Sam Rockwell as Attorney G. Watson Bryant Jr.
- Kathy Bates as Barbara "Bobi" Jewell
- Jon Hamm as FBI Agent Tom Shaw (based on FBI Agent Don Johnson)
- Olivia Wilde as Kathy Scruggs
- Nina Arianda as Nadya Light
- Ian Gomez as FBI Agent Dan Bennet (based on FBI Agent Diader Rosario)
- Dylan Kussman as FBI Special Agent Bruce Hughes
- Mike Pniewski as Brandon Hamm
- Niko Nicotera as Dave Dutchess
- Eric Mendenhall as Eric Rudolph
- Justin Tucker as Firefighter
- Ronnie Allen as Kenny Rogers
- Wayne Duvall as Richard Rackleff, a polygraph examiner