Exclusive: Maya Hawke (Asteroid City) and William H. Macy (Shameless) are set to lead the cast of the new original iHeartPodcast, Supreme: The Battle For Roe, a 9-episode series from creator and writer Aaron Tracy that delves into the true story of the Roe v. Wade case.
Supreme: The Battle for Roe is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and will be available on the iHeartRadio app and all major podcast listening platforms beginning June 28 with new episodes available weekly on Wednesdays.
The series follows the journey of Sarah Weddington (Hawke), who at 26, is the youngest woman ever to argue a case in the Supreme Court. Macy will play Justice Harry Blackmun.
Rachel Winter directs and also produces alongside Ben Spector, Aaron Tracy and Eva Longoria.
“Before Roe V. Wade, Sarah Weddington had never worked on a contested case or even been inside a courtroom. Harry Blackmun had never authored a major opinion.
Supreme: The Battle for Roe is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and will be available on the iHeartRadio app and all major podcast listening platforms beginning June 28 with new episodes available weekly on Wednesdays.
The series follows the journey of Sarah Weddington (Hawke), who at 26, is the youngest woman ever to argue a case in the Supreme Court. Macy will play Justice Harry Blackmun.
Rachel Winter directs and also produces alongside Ben Spector, Aaron Tracy and Eva Longoria.
“Before Roe V. Wade, Sarah Weddington had never worked on a contested case or even been inside a courtroom. Harry Blackmun had never authored a major opinion.
- 6/21/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
To seriously consider “Roe v. Wade” — that is, writer-directors Cathy Allyn and Nick Loeb’s atrocious anti-abortion propaganda piece and not the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision in favor of abortion rights — it is helpful to remember a 2017 quote by journalist Chuck Todd. “Alternative facts are not facts. They’re falsehoods,” Todd succinctly said when confronting Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway on her use of the term. While the Trump era that Conway’s expression sums up is behind us, “Roe v. Wade” has reportedly been in the works for the past three years, so it’s fair to reflect on the baffling film as a product of that period, when right-wing fabrications were routinely presented as truth.
Targeting politically simpatico viewers and anyone they can convert on the other side of the aisle — while perhaps taking a page out of the former administration’s playbook — Allyn and Loeb present their own...
Targeting politically simpatico viewers and anyone they can convert on the other side of the aisle — while perhaps taking a page out of the former administration’s playbook — Allyn and Loeb present their own...
- 4/1/2021
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
This spring, FX’s “Mrs. America” has depicted the fiery intellectual battles among the modern feminist movement, with Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, and Bella Abzug ricocheting against one another and against a conservative backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly. These women are relentlessly articulate, strategic, with crystalline points of view about what they want to achieve for themselves and for all women. They comprise a group in which “Jane Roe” — at the center of perhaps the most crucial of victories for the 20th-century feminist movement — would have no place.
Norma McCorvey, the subject of the new documentary “Aka Jane Roe,” is a canny observer of her own experiences — which mainly consist of having been moved around the gameboard of American politics as a pawn. Speaking to director Nick Sweeney’s camera from her nursing home in the months before her 2017 death, McCorvey describes the experience of being drawn in...
Norma McCorvey, the subject of the new documentary “Aka Jane Roe,” is a canny observer of her own experiences — which mainly consist of having been moved around the gameboard of American politics as a pawn. Speaking to director Nick Sweeney’s camera from her nursing home in the months before her 2017 death, McCorvey describes the experience of being drawn in...
- 5/20/2020
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Norma McCorvey, who used the pseudonym “Jane Roe” in the landmark reproductive rights case Roe v. Wade, said that the reason she was an anti-abortion activist later in life was because she was paid. The revelation comes in the new FX documentary Aka Jane Roe, which premieres this Friday, May 22nd, and was also reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Aka Jane Roe was directed by Nick Sweeney, who conducted a series of interviews with McCorvey before she died in February 2017 at the age of 69. In the film, she reportedly...
Aka Jane Roe was directed by Nick Sweeney, who conducted a series of interviews with McCorvey before she died in February 2017 at the age of 69. In the film, she reportedly...
- 5/19/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
A trailer for the controversial film from rightwing entrepreneur Nick Loeb references Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the supreme court
The first footage has emerged of Roe v Wade, a controversial anti-abortion film, which is part of conservative efforts to overturn the landmark 1973 Us supreme court ruling that deemed abortion a fundamental right under the Us constitution.
Co-written and co-directed by entrepreneur Nick Loeb, who sued his former partner Sofía Vergara in an attempt to gain control over their frozen embryos, Roe v Wade is an explicitly pro-life statement that its makers claimed was shot in secret fearing harassment from pro-choice activists. This is an entirely separate project from one recently announced by UK producers Alison Owen and Debra Hayward, which will focus on lawyer Sarah Weddington, who represented “Roe” Aka Norma McCorvey, the Texan woman who challenged state law denying her an abortion.
The first footage has emerged of Roe v Wade, a controversial anti-abortion film, which is part of conservative efforts to overturn the landmark 1973 Us supreme court ruling that deemed abortion a fundamental right under the Us constitution.
Co-written and co-directed by entrepreneur Nick Loeb, who sued his former partner Sofía Vergara in an attempt to gain control over their frozen embryos, Roe v Wade is an explicitly pro-life statement that its makers claimed was shot in secret fearing harassment from pro-choice activists. This is an entirely separate project from one recently announced by UK producers Alison Owen and Debra Hayward, which will focus on lawyer Sarah Weddington, who represented “Roe” Aka Norma McCorvey, the Texan woman who challenged state law denying her an abortion.
- 1/15/2019
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Bcl Finance Group, a fund headed by Adi Cohen, Michael Bassick and Michael Laundon, has signed a deal to complete the financing of political legal drama “Roe v. Wade.”
The film finished shooting in July. Bcl Finance made the announcement on Tuesday, with U.S. Senate beginning confirmation hearings on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh’s views on abortion are expected to be a major component of those hearings.
Bcl Finance said it anticipates a wide U.S. release in winter. The company said “Roe v. Wade” is the “untold” story of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman’s decision to have an abortion.
The film stars Jon Voight as Chief Justice Warren Burger, Robert Davi as Justice William Brennan, Stacey Dash as National Right to Life president Mildred Mildred Jefferson,...
The film finished shooting in July. Bcl Finance made the announcement on Tuesday, with U.S. Senate beginning confirmation hearings on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh’s views on abortion are expected to be a major component of those hearings.
Bcl Finance said it anticipates a wide U.S. release in winter. The company said “Roe v. Wade” is the “untold” story of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman’s decision to have an abortion.
The film stars Jon Voight as Chief Justice Warren Burger, Robert Davi as Justice William Brennan, Stacey Dash as National Right to Life president Mildred Mildred Jefferson,...
- 9/4/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Story will centre on Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who represented Norma McCorvey in landmark case that paved way for abortion rights across Us
The producers of Suffragette are to make a film telling the story of Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that gave every woman in the Us the right to have an abortion.
According to Deadline, Alison Owen and Debra Hayward’s Monumental Pictures is set to produce the film, which will be written by the Bafta-winning screenwriter Jennifer Majka.
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The producers of Suffragette are to make a film telling the story of Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that gave every woman in the Us the right to have an abortion.
According to Deadline, Alison Owen and Debra Hayward’s Monumental Pictures is set to produce the film, which will be written by the Bafta-winning screenwriter Jennifer Majka.
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- 3/9/2017
- by Gwilym Mumford
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Alison Owen and Debra Hayward's Monumental Pictures is set to bring the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. abortion ruling that paved the way for women to have safe and legal abortions, to the big screen. They've tapped writer Jen Majka, who co-wrote BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated short The Bigger Picture, to pen the script. It's a fitting project to unveil on International Women's Day: A story about the battle of 26 year-old Sarah Weddington…...
- 3/8/2017
- Deadline
[[tmz:video id="0_g4dqkdhj"]] Ivanka and Tiffany Trump will make it impossible for their dad to appoint Supreme Court Justices who are gunning for Roe vs. Wade ... so says the lawyer who won the case giving women a Constitutional right to an abortion. Dr. Sarah Weddington gave us her take on the future of the ruling she won back in 1973. She's actually way more worried about Pence than Trump. #HoldOnGinsburg Read more...
- 11/17/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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