‘Chappaquiddick’ highlights Ted Kennedy’s involvement with a fatal car accident from 1969, where young campaign strategist Mary Jo Kopechne lost her life.
The new film was directed by John Curran (The Painted Day, Tracks) and stars Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty) and Kate Mara (House of Cards).
In this interview, screenwriters Andrew Logan and Taylor Allen talk about taking opportunities as they are presented, their long distance writing partnership, knowing which industry connections to use in terms of voice, the problem with writing genre movies, and what inspired them to create the first movie about Senator Ted Kennedy.
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