Variety reports on a planned miniseries about the Dover case about teaching intelligent design:
Paramount Pictures has hired Ron Nyswaner to pen the screenplay for “Dover,” based on the landmark 2005 trial that stopped a Pennsylvania school board from teaching “intelligent design” — i.e., creationism — over evolution.
Lynda Obst is producing for the studio through her Par-based shingle.
The town of Dover, Penn., was torn apart by the trial, which essentially pitted religious faith against Darwinism in explaining the origins of life.
A federal judge ruled intelligent design is a form of creationism, the teaching of which is generally frowned upon, since it brings religion into the classroom.
NOVA (PBS) is also doing a dramatized re-enactment, supposedly for spring 2007.