He has the mastery of how to make that come alive on the screen. It was very much a kind of a reporting team endeavor, but he was in charge of the creative. We used other books and we did interviews as people leaked us documents. We did a lot of research together that went far beyond my book. “He has a lot of experience bringing nonfiction projects to the screen, including ‘Game Change,’ ‘Recount,’ ‘The Butler.’ He wrote all of those, and he knows how to take a true story and turn it into a docuseries. “He had another opioid project already going and our visions matched a lot,” said Macy, who earned a Bachelor of Science in journalism from BGSU in 1986. Then, Macy was paired with show runner Danny Strong, best known for creating the Fox drama “Empire” and writing two screenplays for the “Hunger Games” franchise. He really got that it was a cause for me.” “He kept saying that more people will watch the show than read my book.
1 barrier to turning the crisis back,” she said.
“I really liked his vision for it because he saw right away that it would help chip away at the stigma of being addicted to opioids, which is still the No. After her book debuted in 2018, there were several offers to option “Dopesick.” Ultimately, Macy went with Warren Littlefield, who also produces “The Handmaid’s Tale” for Hulu.
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