The documentary capturing comedian Louis C.K.’s #MeToo scandal has been shelved at Showtime.Director Caroline Suh (“Blackpink: Light Up the Sky”) was originally set to helm the documentary announced by Paramount Global exec David Nevins in August 2022.
Nevins exited Paramount in October 2022.Showtime confirmed to IndieWire that the documentary would not be moving forward but did not provide additional reasons as to why.
Variety first reported the news.“Louis C.K.
is a slightly different situation [compared to Harvey Weinstein],” then-Showtime CEO Nevins said at the time.
“[He is] a great, great comedian who has come back in his own way.”Nevins added, “I don’t think the social change that #MeToo has brought about is resolved at all.
There’s a bit of backlash against #MeToo, who has to go away and who’s allowed to come back.”The documentary was set to chart C.K.’s exit from projects in 2017 following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.
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