Editing Mississippi Burning (section)

===Development===
In 1985, screenwriter [[Chris Gerolmo]] discovered an article that excerpted a chapter from the book ''Inside Hoover's F.B.I.'', which chronicled the FBI's investigation into the murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.<ref name="Gerolmo">{{cite web|title=Mississippi Burning, Reconsidered|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-gerolmo/mississippi-burning-reconsidered_b_4859179.html|first=Chris|last=Gerolmo|author-link=Chris Gerolmo|date=February 26, 2014|work=[[Huffington Post]]|access-date=April 29, 2016|archive-date=April 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416171532/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-gerolmo/mississippi-burning-reconsidered_b_4859179.html|url-status=live}}</ref> While writing a draft script, Gerolmo brought it to producer [[Frederick Zollo]], who worked with him on ''[[Miles from Home]]'' (1988).<ref name="Empire">{{cite web|title=Classic Feature: Mississippi Burning|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/empire-mississippi-burning/|first=Patrick|last=Goldstein|date=June 1989|work=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]|access-date=April 29, 2016|archive-date=September 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924031515/http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/empire-mississippi-burning/|url-status=live}}</ref> Zollo helped Gerolmo develop the original draft before they sold it to [[Orion Pictures]].<ref name="ProdNotes">{{cite web|title=Mississippi Burning - Alan Parker - Director, Writer, Producer - Official Website|url=http://alanparker.com/film/mississippi-burning/making/|first=Alan|last=Parker|author-link=Alan Parker|publisher=AlanParker.com|access-date=April 29, 2016|archive-date=June 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601063513/http://alanparker.com/film/mississippi-burning/making/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The studio then began its search for a director. Filmmakers [[Miloš Forman]] and [[John Schlesinger]] were among those considered.<ref name="Empire"/> In September 1987, [[Alan Parker]] was given a copy of Gerolmo's script by Orion's executive vice president and co-founder [[Mike Medavoy]].<ref name="ProdNotes" /> When Parker traveled to Tokyo, Japan, to act as a juror for the 1987 [[Tokyo International Film Festival]], his colleague [[Robert F. Colesberry]] began researching the time period, and compiled books, newspaper articles, live news footage and photographs related to the 1964 murders.<ref name="Parker">{{cite book|first1=David F. Jr. |last1=Gonthier |first2=Timothy L. |last2=O'Brien|title=The Films of Alan Parker, 1976–2003|date=May 2015|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|location = United States|chapter=9. ''Mississippi Burning'', 1988 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=9S-SCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PR4&pg=PA162 162–182]|isbn=978-0-7864-9725-6}}</ref><ref name="BurningTruth">{{cite magazine|title=The Burning Truth|last=Ressner|first=Jeffrey|author-link=Jeffrey Ressner|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=November 17, 1988|volume=539|pages=45–46|location=United States}}</ref> Upon returning to the United States, Parker met with Colesberry in New York and spent several months viewing the research.<ref name="ProdNotes" /><ref name="BurningTruth" /> The director also began selecting the creative team; the production reunited Parker with many of his past collaborators, including Colesberry, [[Casting (performing arts)|casting directors]] Howard Feuer and Juliet Taylor, [[cinematographer|director of photography]] [[Peter Biziou]], [[film editing|editor]] [[Gerry Hambling]], [[costume design]]er Aude Bronson-Howard, [[production designer]] [[Geoffrey Kirkland]], [[camera operator]] Michael Roberts, and [[Musical composition|music composer]] [[Trevor Jones (composer)|Trevor Jones]].<ref name="ProdNotes" /><ref name="CastCrew">{{cite web|url=http://wwwdb.oscars.org:8100/servlet/impc.DisplayCredits?vetted=T&primekey_in=2000051109:34:011578369 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070912192902/http://wwwdb.oscars.org:8100/servlet/impc.DisplayCredits?vetted=T&primekey_in=2000051109:34:011578369 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 12, 2007 |title=Index to Motion Picture Credits - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |website=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=May 11, 2016 }}</ref>