Harvey Weinstein’s L.A. Rape Trial Still On Track For October Despite ‘She Said’ Movie Debut

deadline.com:

Harvey Weinstein failed today to get his Los Angeles trial on multiple sex crimes pushed back over an upcoming festival premiere and fall wide release of a movie about the investigation into his decades of abuse and sexual assaults .In a downtown pre-trial hearing Monday morning, Los Angeles Superior Court judge Lisa Lench rejected a move by the defense to delay the incarcerated producer’s October trial start over the Maria Schrader directed She Said.

In a somewhat ironic scenario, the architect of the modern cutthroat awards campaign claimed that the marketing and publicity of the film based on the acclaimed journalism of the New York Times’ Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey would prejudice any City of Angels jury against him.Judge Lench wasn’t buying it, and put pedal to the metal for the commencement of jury selection on October 10.“Harvey and his attorneys will be prepared for trial,” Weinstein rep Juda Engelmayer told Deadline after today’s LASC hearing. “The timing of the movie makes it hard to assure a fair trial that is judged by the facts and not the emotions of those who see the film or who recall the weight of the book when it came out initially,” the NYC-based publicist added. “It’s another challenge and it isn’t right.”She Said, based on NYT reporters’ Kantor and Twohey 2019 non-fiction best seller on how they cracked the Weinstein scandal story, is making its world premiere at the New York Film Festival next month.

We hear the film is still in post-production with a film score by Nicholas Britell. The pic which stars Carey Mulligan as Twohey and Zoe Kazan as Kantor is going wide from Universal on November 18 before Thanksgiving.