Hollywood has never been slow to capitalize on a potentially cinematic story born out of a national tragedy. But now that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been formally sentenced to death — pending appeal — for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and injured hundreds more, it seems that the frenzy to greenlight films about that day's tragic events has reached a fever pitch.
David Gordon Green has signed on to direct Stronger, an adaptation of Boston bombing survivor Jeff Bauman's book of the same name. Bauman, who lost both his legs in the attack and testified at Tsarnaev's trial, became a face of the tragedy after an iconic and gruesome photo of him being rushed to safety in a wheelchair was plastered on newspapers across the nation.
But Bauman's story is hardly the first Boston bombing project already in the works — noted Bostonian Mark Wahlberg is attached to star in Patriots' Day, and Fox is on the hunt for a director for its own project, Boston Strong.
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