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Lifetime Making Miniseries About the Columbine Shootings

In Celebs by Kim Muraro , on Monday, February 06, 2012, 5:55 AM (PST)
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Producers Behind Moneyball, The Social Network and Mildred Pierce Will Steer the Project

Dave Cullen's compelling 2009 book Columbine, about the April 1999 shootings at Columbine High School, will be the basis for an upcoming Lifetime miniseries about the tragic school killings.

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Cullen's book is a heartbreaking, thorough account of the 1999 shootings, in which Trench Coat Mafia members Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed a dozen of their fellow students and a teacher at the Denver area high school, and then killed themselves.

Cullen talked to survivors, the families of the victims and the shooters and also covers the police investigation of the tragedy and its aftermath and the impact on the entire community.

Producers Michael DeLuca (Moneyball and The Social Network) and Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler (Mildred Pierce and Boys Don't Cry) will produce the project, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

DeLuca is an Oscar nominee as a producer on Best Picture nominee Moneyball.

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Posted By gm davis (106 days ago)
Cullen , who first reported on the story for the online magazine Salon, acknowledges in the book's source notes that thoughts he attributes to Klebold and Harris are conjecture gleaned from the record the pair left behind. Jeff Kass takes a more straightforward approach in "Columbine: A True Crime Story," working backward from the events of the fateful day. The Denver Post Mr. Cullen insists that the killers enjoyed "far more friends than the average adolescent," with Harris in particular being a regular Casanova who "on the ultimate high school scorecard . . . outscored much of the football team." The author's footnotes do not reveal how he knows this; when I asked him about it while preparing this review, Mr. Cullen said he did not necessarily mean to imply that Harris was sexually active. But what else would such words mean? "Eric and Dylan never had any girlfriends," the more sober Mr. Kass writes, and were "probably virgins upon death." Wall Street Journal
 
Posted By gm davis (106 days ago)
Cullen , who first reported on the story for the online magazine Salon, acknowledges in the book's source notes that thoughts he attributes to Klebold and Harris are conjecture gleaned from the record the pair left behind. Jeff Kass takes a more straightforward approach in "Columbine: A True Crime Story," working backward from the events of the fateful day. The Denver Post Mr. Cullen insists that the killers enjoyed "far more friends than the average adolescent," with Harris in particular being a regular Casanova who "on the ultimate high school scorecard . . . outscored much of the football team." The author's footnotes do not reveal how he knows this; when I asked him about it while preparing this review, Mr. Cullen said he did not necessarily mean to imply that Harris was sexually active. But what else would such words mean? "Eric and Dylan never had any girlfriends," the more sober Mr. Kass writes, and were "probably virgins upon death." Wall Street Journal
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