The Departed screenwriter is making a movie about teenage snitches
William Monahan, best known for his Oscar-winning script for 2006’s The Departed, is working with Paramount Pictures to obtain the movie rights for a 2012 New Yorker article about teenagers acting as confidential drug informants. The concept of “kid snitches” is certainly a fun one, conjuring images of tough-talking bullies, listening devices constructed from tin cans on a string, and also that Departed-parodying episode of The Simpsons that was exactly about that.