![]() Then in June 2016, the New York State Office of the Inspector General released a 150-page report detailing the specifics of the escape, which the writers worked into the script, and Stiller agreed to sign on. “I was interested in what really happened, but at the time, didn’t have that much actual information.” “I felt like I didn’t know enough about the reality of what happened, and I didn’t want to do something that was based on speculation,” Stiller tells Variety during filming at an abandoned Brooklyn warehouse that has been transformed into Clinton Correctional’s tailor shop. The first time he got the directing offer for “Dannemora,” Stiller passed due to lack of facts in the script. Those tawdry details explain why “Ray Donovan” writing team Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin started working on a script about the incident even before Matt and Sweat were respectively killed and captured. ![]() Mitchell was sentenced to up to seven years for her part in the escape, which included smuggling hacksaw blades and other tools to the two inmates via frozen hamburgers. A sentence of three to seven years was added to his original life term, and he was ordered to pay $79,841 in restitution. Ultimately Matt was shot and killed by authorities, while Sweat was captured and returned to prison. Their escape spawned a massive, costly three-week manhunt. The duo’s elaborate plan, which involved squeezing through a catwalk and crawling through dimly lit underground tunnels and pipes, was aided by a married prison employee named Joyce Tilly Mitchell with whom both had been sexually entangled. ![]() Matt, who was serving 25 years to life for dismembering a man, and Sweat, who was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for killing a sheriff’s deputy, were the first inmates to escape from the maximum-security prison in more than 100 years. The story of the men’s escape in the summer of 2015 reads like it was ripped from a Hollywood movie script. ![]()
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