Watch Out Erin Brockovich, Collene Campbell is Heading for the Big Screen
When "Erin Brockovich-style movie" gets thrown around in a news piece, you know sights are set on big leads, a big story, and of course, big critical success, or at least, an Oscar in the mix. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Collene Campbell's fight for the Victims' Bill of Rights is about to become a feature film.But this story is a heck of a lot eerier than Brokovich's. In 1982, Campbell's son was murdered after getting involved in drugs. In 1988, her brother (an off-road racing legend named Mickey Thompson) was murdered as well, with his wife. They go through years of trials, and Campbell becomes an advocate for victims' rights, ultimately getting Proposition 9 passed this month. To top off all that, her grandson also dies in a freak accident. (This will give you more details.)
The Collective and Three Friends Prods. are working with Campbell and her husband to produce the film, and they're currently in talks with writers and directors to get moving on the adaptation of her story. Will it garner the sucess of Erin Brockovich? Only time will tell, but I hope that if it does, there's a stunning performance that fuels it, rather than a decent one that pulls out the upset. (Roberts over Burstyn)
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12-01-2008 @ 1:55PM
Brandon said...
With all due respect to all that Ms. Campbell has been through, to suggest that she was the one that was able to get Proposition 9 in California passed is completely offensive. While Ms. Campbell was engaged in the effort, she was only one player in the major grassroots effort that resulted in such a huge, uphill victory for victims across California. Any suggestion that she did so single-handedly whether by her own suggestion or that of any other person is false and offensive to all other victims and victims rights organizations that worked so hard for months on the effort.
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12-03-2008 @ 10:50PM
Jack Reilley said...
Collene is truly a champion for all victims of violent crime. I met her in the late 80s after my daughter was murdered by a serial killer on a college campus. We are bonded in friendship and grief. She is an inspiration to my wife and I by her constant example of spirit, passion, fight and focus on changing society attitudes about victims, crime and criminals. Collene is a fighter and she works tireless to put victim rights into law. Proposition 9 had many victim leaders and heros working for passage, but I doubt if Prop 9 would have ever be approved without Collene's pioneering work to show victims how to win.
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