Shattered Glass

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The true story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was found he had fabricated over half of his articles.

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Released:	Jan 1st, 2003
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Shattered Glass Main Cast

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Hayden Christensen
plays Stephen Glass

Peter Sarsgaard
plays Charles 'Chuck' Lane

Chloë Sevigny
plays Caitlin Avey

Rosario Dawson
plays Andy Fox

Melanie Lynskey
plays Amy Brand

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In The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray (2007) (V), Ray reports that his adaptation of an article by Buzz Bissinger for the script of Shattered Glass, built on his experience of having worked on a draft of an adaptation of Bissinger's book, Friday Night Lights, for the 2004 film of the same name. Ray did not receive a writing credit for the work he did on that adaptation.
Movie Goof (factual errors): At the end of the film, Stephen Glass and Chuck Lane and their respective lawyers had a meeting to determine which of Glass's articles were fraudulent. In the DVD commentary, both director Billy Ray and the real life Chuck Lane stated that such a meeting did occur, however, neither Glass or Lane attended the meeting, only their lawyers were present.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the scene where Marty comes in to sit in on the meeting of the editors, Caitlin is wearing a light blue sleeveless top. However when the camera cuts back to the editors sitting down and checking the paper for "comma errors", she is wearing a dark blue button-up shirt with short sleeves.
Writer/Director Billy Ray first came to this project when HBO, which had optioned a Buzz Bissinger article about the Stephen Glass (II) debacle, hired Ray to adapt the article into a screenplay. While he was writing it, certain HBO executives were fired. By the time he handed in the script, Ray says in an interview, there was a new administration at HBO who "hadn't ordered the script and didn't particularly care about it. So it sat for two years." As he continued writing scripts, he eventually decided "it was time to find out if I was grown up enough to be a director." And he thought that his adaptation of the Bissinger article would be "a good launching point for me because I knew there was nothing in there that was so craft-dependent that my lack of experience was going to hang me." Ray recounts these events in The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray (2007) (V).

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