Independent.co.uk goes to Hollywood

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Laura Oliver - Filed Under Online Journalism |

Well, it nearly did…

A scene from new film A Mighty Heart, which tells the story of murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl, features a shot of an article about shoe-bomber Richard Reid on the Indy’s website.

But apparently the site didn’t make the grade and a new version had to be made just for filming.

“They all thought that The Indy’s website was so poor they didn’t want to show it to the viewers and so recreated another one for the movie,” a producer told Press Gazette’s Axegrinder blog.

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