

The LATE SHOW has received numerous honors, including 70 Emmy nominations and nine Emmy Awards, including six for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program in 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 20. With its commitment to showcasing the most sought-after stars in entertainment, music, sports and politics, as well as its around-the-town remotes and visits to local establishments, its surprise guest appearances, inventive comedy segments and signature Top Ten List, the LATE SHOW delivers an unpredictable hour of innovative viewing each night. One look at the LATE SHOW makes it apparent that the program, which is often imitated but never matched, is unlike any other talk show. On last night’s LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, guest James Franco chatted about North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and his contraversial film “The Interview”. Watch an exclusive behind the scenes video on “The True Story Behind True Story,” featuring the A-list cast (Hill, Franco, and Jones) and crew discussing the strange case and the making of the film: All this doesn’t sit well with Finkel’s girlfriend, played by Oscar nominee Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), who begins to question whether the man she loves is once again committing a journalistic sin. The more Finkel learns about Longo, the more he begins to empathize with him-and believes he may be innocent. True Story, directed by Rupert Goold, tells the “true story” of Finkel (Jonah Hill) and Longo’s (James Franco) complex relationship. So Finkel, in an effort to repair his name, pursued the Longo story and attempted to get to the bottom of why he used his name, and whether this charismatic, attractive accused killer really did what they say he did. Then, Finkel’s career came crashing down when his Times Magazine cover story on the life of a young Ivory Coast laborer on a cocoa plantation, “Is Youssouf Malé a Slave?,” was proven to include fabricated and conflated facts. An Oregonian by the name of Christian Longo, who had been accused of brutally murdering his wife and children, had used his name as an alias while he was a fugitive on the run. In December 2001, Mike Finkel, a prolific New York Times Magazine journalist, was roped into the most bizarre story of his career.
The A-list cast discusses True Story, which tells the real-life tale of Mike Finkel, a disgraced New York Times journalist who develops a close bond with a suspected killer.
