According to reports from the The Hollywood Reporter, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, Il cavaliere oscuro - Il ritorno) sarà Jim Jones in White Night, psychological thriller about the founder of the "People's Temple."
Also in development on the insane religious leader is Jim Jones, a film starring Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio as the U.S. criminal who drove 918 of his followers (including more than 300 children) to suicide in the 1970s.
Written by William Wheeler, White Night features Anne Sewitsky in the director's booth.
The film is based on Seductive Poison, libro di memorie della sopravvissuta Deborah Layton, l'aiutante di fiducia di Jim Jones.
In Anne Sewitsky's film, we will find Chloe Grace Moretz (Blood Story, Suspiria) as this girl who escaped the massacre.
Fondato negli anni ’50 a Indianapolis dal predicatore Jim Jones (1931 - 1978), il “Tempio del popolo” era un movimento laicale di volontariato, con connotazioni politiche socialiste e della chiesa dei Discepoli di Cristo.
Jim Jones was able to manipulate hundreds of men and women, convincing them they had mystical healer abilities and indoctrinating them with millenarian language and brainwashing techniques.
Between 1965 and the early 1970s, his preaching activities shifted to Northern California and San Francisco where his congregation was accused of financial fraud and sexual abuse among its followers, so Jones moved everything to Guyana (a country on the North Atlantic coast of South America), christening that place "Jonestown."
The movement ended on Nov. 18, 1978, with a mass suicide by means of a cyanide Flavor Aid cocktail while the reverend was found dead with a bullet wound to the head.
