UA’s Scott Stuber Lands Evan Gershkovich Film; ‘Conclave’ Helmer Edward Berger To Tell Story Of WSJ Reporter Who Spent Year In Russian Prison On Bogus Spying Charges
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: United Artists’ Scott Stuber has reeled in a big package: Conclave helmer Edward Berger directing a film about Evan Gershkovich and the harrowing year the Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent spent in a Russian prison on fabricated espionage charges after being arrested by the Federal Security Service.
Amazon MGM Studios and UA’s Stuber are negotiating to lock in all the pieces. Deals are closing for the script to be written by David Weil (Citadel and Invasion) and for Amy Pascal to produce.
Stuber and Nick Nesbitt will produce for UA. Also included is rights to the memoir Gershkovich is writing about his seven years as a WSJ foreign correspondent in Moscow, the last of which was spent in a prison cell after he was wrongfully imprisoned.
His reports leaned into the country’s slide toward autocracy. The journalist ended his time in Russia when he was released in a swap of prisoners in August 2024.
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