The lawyer for Richard Jewell said he and Jewell’s mother and widow have “made an oral agreement re a top talent feature film” about the late security guard, who discovered the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bomb only to be wrongly suspected of planting it.

Watson Bryant, a real estate lawyer whom Jewell called after he was identified as a suspect, said “the plan as I know it” is for Leonardo DiCaprio to play Bryant and Jonah Hill to play Jewell in an upcoming film.

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