Jussie Smollett Documentary Set At Netflix From "The Tinder Swindler" P
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Netflix has ordered The Truth About Jussie Smollett?, a 90-minute feature doc about the case that, despite occurring in 2019, was just wrapped up, legally speaking, a couple of months ago.
It will feature an interview with former Empire star Smollett himself.
The project comes from All3Media-owned production company Raw, which is
behind two of Netflix’s weirder true-crime tales in The Tinder Swindler and Don’t F**k with Cats.
The Netflix logline says the Smollett doc is a “shocking true story of an allegedly fake story that some now say might just be a true story. Featuring interviews with police, lawyers, journalists, investigators who claim to have uncovered new evidence about the case, and with Jussie himself, this
compelling documentary invites the audience to decide for themselves who is telling The Truth About Jussie Smollett?”
Gagan Rehill, who was one of three directors on Netflix’s Ashley Madison:
Sex, Lies & Scandal, is directing. Raw’s Tom Sheahan and Tim Wardle are exec producers on the doc, which will launch August 22.
In January 2019, the Empire star claimed to have been a victim of a hate
crime that stunned Hollywood but later was accused of staging the attack. He was arrested and charged with filing a false police report, but the charges were dropped. In 2020, he was re-indicted and eventually convicted on five felony counts, including lying to police, and sentenced to jail in March
2022, though he only served six days.
Last November, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned the legal consequences Smollett suffered due to the high-profile incident, with the court finding
that special prosecutor Dan Webb’s decision to retry Smollett had violated
the performer’s rights.
In May, officials announced they had reached a settlement with Smollett and
the actor said he was giving $60,000 to charity.
“I’m very excited to be sharing this film with Netflix viewers,” Rehill said. “This story is a thrilling ride, and we were lucky enough to have access to
the key players. I wanted this documentary to balance their competing narratives and to also use their compelling, colorful testimonies to thread
the light and shade of the story through the film. But much more than that, I wanted this film to speak to the particular moment of rapid cultural change when this takes place in 2019; when, as a society, we were becoming more combative, more polarized, more divergent over our shared reality – when we began to lack a common singular Truth.”
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