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'I have a story to tell. It is a story of
murder told from inside the house where murder is
born. It is the house where I grew up, a house that,
in some ways, I have never been able to leave.'
--from the book 'Shot in the
Heart',
by Mikal Gilmore
 
"Shot in the Heart," is a TV movie based on
journalist Mikal Gilmore's memoir of the same name about
his brother Gary Gilmore, the murderer who campaigned
for his own execution in 1977.
Agnieszka Holland (``Europa, Europa'')
will direct the telepic from a script by Frank Pugliese
(``Homicide: Life on the Street''). Production
began in Baltimore in early February.
Giovanni Ribisi (``The Gift'') will
star as Mikal Gilmore, with Elias Koteas (``The Thin Red
Line'') to play Gary Gilmore. Eric Bogosian, Lee
Tergesen (``Oz'') and Sam Shepard also have been cast.
More on this movie is on the
News page (March 2, 2001).
Also, here's a
TV Guide review.
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(From news
page)
March 2, 2001:
HBO takes ``Heart'' with Gilmore tome
By Paula Bernstein NEW YORK (Variety) -
HBO Films has greenlit "Shot in the Heart," a
TV movie based on journalist Mikal Gilmore's memoir of
the same name about his brother Gary Gilmore, the
murderer who campaigned for his own execution in 1977.
Agnieszka Holland (``Europa, Europa'')
will direct the telepic from a script by Frank Pugliese
(``Homicide: Life on the Street''). Production begins in
Baltimore in early February.
Giovanni Ribisi (``The Gift'') will star
as Mikal Gilmore, with Elias Koteas (``The Thin Red
Line'') to play Gary Gilmore. Eric Bogosian, Lee
Tergesen (``Oz'') and Sam Shepard also have been cast.
Told through the perspective of Mikal
Gilmore, ``Shot'' is the story of a wildly dysfunctional
family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child
abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery and murder. It will
chronicle the final days of Gary Gilmore, who, after
being convicted of murder, petitioned to be shot by a
Utah firing squad, becoming the first person to be
executed since the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites)
lifted a national death penalty ban in 1976.
Gary Gilmore was the subject of Norman
Mailer's tome ``The Executioner's Song,'' which became a
1982 NBC miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones.
``Shot in the Heart'' had lingered in
development since 1992, when it was first optioned for
Warner Bros. by the late director Alan Pakula in the
form of a book proposal. When Pakula's option lapsed,
director-producer Robert Greenwald bought the rights to
the project and brought it to HBO. According to HBO,
Greenwald is no longer associated with the project ``due
to creative differences.''
Mikal Gilmore is a contributing editor
at Rolling Stone magazine where he has written for many
years.
Reuters/Variety REUTERS
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