Oklahoma City's On The Cutting Room Floor

I'm happy enough that Hollywood has found an Oklahoma story worthy to be produced:

In 1998, New Jersey businessman John Crowley’s two young children were diagnosed with a rare, potentially fatal disease. In the months that followed, he joined Oklahoma City scientist Bill Canfield’s company, Novazyme, and together they worked to develop a drug to combat the disease.

Their story ended up in a Wall Street Journal article by Pulitzer Prize winner Geeta Anand, who then wrote a book, "The Cure.” That story, in turn, inspired a screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs, whose previous credits include "Chocolat.”

But the few in Oklahoma City who know about the movie "Crowley” see it as a lost opportunity to showcase the city’s emergence in the bio-sciences field.

But will Hollywood mention the Oklahoma connection? The producers say that in the process of bringing their story to the big screen, timelines were compressed, and characters and events were changed or otherwise fictionalized for dramatic purposes so what do you think?

Sigh.

Well, I'm just glad they didn't make it in Texas.