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Caroline Suh’s feature-length Louis C.K. documentary might not see the light of day after all. On Monday, Variety reported that Showtime has opted not to move forward with the project, and that it’s currently unclear if it will be picked up elsewhere.
Suh is best known for directing Netflix’s Blackpink: Light Up the Sky, as well as the 2008 documentary Frontrunners. She also both adapted and directed Salt Fat Acid Heat for Netflix. According to Variety, her documentary would have examined both C.K. and his fall from grace—spurred by allegations of sexual misconduct against the comedian—and how the #MeToo movement has developed since then.
Last year at the Edinburgh TV Festival, David Nevins—then a top executive at Paramount Global—said that the C.K. documentary “is going to deal with all the ‘where are we now’ four, five years later after the Weinstein story broke.” (As Variety notes, Nevins stepped down last fall during a corporate restructure.)