“I had wanted to make a movie about Chicago but I didn't really know what my angle was going to be or what the focus of it was. The more I got to talk with Barry about his childhood in Chicago in the 50s, the more it struck me that this would be a really cool way to tell the story about Chicago in a different way.”
Read MoreMatt Bai is a political columnist for Yahoo! News. He authored All The Truth Is Out in 2014 about Gary Hart’s short-lived 1987 presidential campaign and the ramifications it has had even today. He was also the screenwriter for the film adaptation of the book, The Front Runner, released November 8th.
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