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So many things just happened. They fell in it. It was almost like the penance I paid for 15 years of not being able to touch this as a project in Hollywood

paid off in great dividends.

Author Michael Connolly sold the film rights to his famous detective character Harry Bosch

years ago.

But Bosch never made it to the big screen.

Still, Connolly kept churning out the books, and now that he's finally gotten the

rights back, he has plenty of material for the new Bosch series on Amazon. But first on the news

banter, the director gets jail time in the Midnight Rider case and Intimations of Mortality at Viacom.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am back from a break, rested and ready, and joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter. Hey, Matt.

Hi there. So the Midnight Rider case, and this is the infamous case in which a young Sarah Jones was killed when a train came onto a track, the production of this movie, Midnight Rider, this Greg Alman biopic, were attempting to steal a shot.

The trial was about to begin, Matt, but I guess somewhat to people's surprise, the director pled guilty to a negligent homicide. Yeah, I mean,

that was the big surprise is that there was no trial. We had the director Randall Miller pleading guilty in exchange. His wife, Jody Savon, was essentially let off. The other producers that were

on trial quickly pled as well. One got 10 years probation, the other got five years probation.

Randall Miller, the director really, the only one who will serve jail time for this,

about two years probably, and then he'll be on probation for 10 years.

And the thing is, it is a historic thing that we're seeing here.

It's the first time that an actual director is going to jail for something

that occurred on the set of his movie. And that's the tragic death of this woman, Sarah Jones.

Yeah, it's the ultimate responsibility of the director or a first AD or that group of people.

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