Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Chloë Grace Moretz will co-star in a film that focuses on the historic Jonestown tragedy.
Jim Jones (Joseph), the leader of the cult “The Peoples Temple”, used force to force more than 900 followers to commit suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, South America in 1978.
A total of 913 people died of cyanide poisoning, including 276 children. Those who refused to kill themselves were forcibly dosed with cyanide, or shot, strangled, and Jim Jones shot himself.
Only four people in the entire camp survived, two of them risking their lives to escape. The other two are disabled and deaf old people who survived being forgotten by other believers.
Chloë plays Deborah Layton, a survivor of the tragedy, based on Layton’s memoir Seductive Poison.
The review is directed by Anne Sewitsky (“A Very British Scandal”) and written by William Wheeler, and it will begin filming this spring.
Leonardo DiCaprio is also expected to play Jim Jones in another MGM project. He will also be producing his version of the Jonestown Massacre, but there is no word on the production process for the film.
