Billy Ray and Adam McKay Team Up For J6, A Film About The Events of January 6th in Washington DC

J6, a film written and directed by Billy Ray and produced by Adam McKay will follow the events at the ground level of what happened at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

Deadline announced recently that writer/director Billy Ray will be taking an interesting look at the insurrection of the US Capitol building. Here are some details that were shared:

Deeply affected by the attack, he (Ray) traveled to Washington, D.C. within days of the siege, and interviewed a number of the key principals when memories were raw and fresh. That included Capitol police officers Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn, as well as members of Congress who were trapped inside the Capitol when the violent siege unfolded. Fanone consulted on the screenplay throughout the process.

This is a very upsetting and extremely documented time in US history. There have been many different views of the events as they unfolded. Some people saw it as right some saw it as wrong, however you look at it, it accomplished nothing but give us something to talk about.

Billy Ray is going to give us a point of view that maybe we haven’t seen or thought about. He shared in a statement, “The goal was to do a ground-level view of a momentous day. It’s about protesters who became rioters and cops who became defenders of democracy. Someone else can tell the story of the chaos at the White House on that day. I wanted to stay in the trenches.”

Producer Cullen Hoback added, “I was at the U.S Capitol on January 6 with cameras. Since then, there’s been a campaign to chisel away at the truth of what really went down. Billy’s journalistic approach will make it more difficult for opportunistic politicians and pundits to rewrite history.”

Do you think that you will be interested in checking this out? Let us know what you think.