Jussie Smollett Case Gets the Netflix Treatment in Upcoming True-Crime Documentary
Netflix is gearing up to release a documentary about Jussie Smollett and his 2019 hate crime.
The streamer has titled the project, “The Truth About Jussie Smollett," and will feature a series of interviews from police officers, lawyers, investigators, and journalists who are sharing “new evidence about the case,” according to Variety.
The film has a director in place, with Gagan Rehill and RAW, the production company behind Netflix hits “Don’t F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer” and “The Tinder Swindler,” set to helm the project.
“I’m very excited to be sharing this film with Netflix viewers,” Rehill shared in a statement.
“This story is a thrilling ride, and we were lucky enough to have access to the key players. I wanted this documentary to balance their competing narratives and to also use their compelling, colorful testimonies to thread the light and shade of the story through the film. But much more than that, I wanted this film to speak to the particular moment of rapid cultural change when this takes place in 2019; when, as a society, we were becoming more combative, more polarized, more divergent over our shared reality – when we began to lack a common singular truth.”
Smollett recently agreed to pay $50,000 to a local nonprofit to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the City of Chicago over the cost of investigating his 2019 hate crime hoax, BET reported.
The payment resolves a civil lawsuit filed by the city to recover over $120,000 spent investigating Smollett’s staged attack."
The documentary will premiere on August 22nd.
