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They hired screenwriter Billy Ray based on the script he had written for the TNT film Legalese. Bissinger's Vanity Fair magazine article about Stephen Glass for an HBO original movie. Producer Craig Baumgarten, working with HBO executive Gaye Hirsch, optioned H.G.

Simone-Élise Girard as Catarina Bannier.

Closing titles reveal that Penenberg's article on Glass was hailed as a breakthrough for internet journalism, The New Republic determined that 27 of Glass's 41 stories were either partially or completely fabricated, Kelly was killed while covering the Iraq War, Glass earned a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown and wrote a novel paralleling his own life, and Lane joined The Washington Post. With his deception exposed, Glass is fired by Lane.ĭespite initial pushback, Lane receives support from The New Republic staff for bringing Glass's deception to light, while the magazine's attorney questions Glass over which stories of his were fabricated. After confronting Glass with this knowledge, Lane re-reads Glass's previous stories and comes to the revelation that they were also falsified. Lane decides to suspend Glass instead of firing him due to his popularity, but upon discovering that Glass's brother lives in Palo Alto, he realizes that Glass had his brother pose as the firm's chairman.

With the story contradicted by this information, Glass tells Lane he had only relied on sources for information and falsified his first-hand experiences to improve the story. Lane, looking to protect Glass from the Forbes staff, has Glass take him to a convention center and restaurant where the story took place, but learns that both were closed during the events Glass wrote about. Glass and Lane also partake in a conference call with the Forbes staff, which further erodes the story's credibility and prompts Glass to claim he was tricked by his sources. After Lane calls the number, he briefly speaks with an individual identifying as the firm's chairman.

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When contacted by Penenberg about being unable to reach the individuals in his story, Glass provides a number with a Palo Alto area code for the firm. The story reaches Forbes Digital Tool where reporter Adam Penenberg finds no corroborating evidence for what Glass described.

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Glass writes a story entitled 'Hack Heaven' that details a teenage hacker being hired by a large software firm he infiltrated. Reporter Charles Lane is promoted by Peretz to replace Kelly, despite being disliked by the staff. However, conflict between Kelly and publisher Marty Peretz results in Peretz firing Kelly. Glass serves under editor Michael Kelly, whom the writers hold loyalty towards. Among the youngest of the magazine's staff, Glass enjoys popularity with his colleagues for his entertaining stories. In 1998, Stephen Glass is an associate editor at The New Republic.