However, with Polanski currently a fugitive from US justice, the film’s subject has lent itself to a stream of criticism on social media.
Although it was first announced in 2012, outrage is rapidly spreading over a new project by director Roman Polanski after it was confirmed filming is to start soon.
Entitled J’Accuse, the film is based on the notorious Dreyfus affair, a shocking miscarriage of justice case that convulsed France at the end of the 19th century.
Polanski called #MeToo “mass hysteria” in an interview conducted before his expulsion.