PIPELINE POST: …Focus Features has said it did not produce the movie with an agenda in mind, and that it wants viewers to make up their own mind when it premieres.
When writing the script, Mr. Damon and Mr. Krasinski considered focusing on coal mining, oil drilling and even salmon harvesting in Alaska before settling on fracking…
“The idea of fracking or natural gas was just a very apropos news story that was beginning to grow a year and a half ago,” he said. “I just chose that as the background and, of course, that has grown into something quite wild in and of itself.” … (more)
