In April 2016, Steven Spielberg purchased the rights to create a film based on Foos's life, with director Sam Mendes tapped to direct. The film was canceled in November 2016 after Spielberg and Mendes learned of this documentary feature about the same subject, then in production. In regard to the decision to cancel the film, Mendes expressed frustration that no one had advised them of the documentary's existence, but said: "it has so many things that are wonderful and can only be achieved by a documentary...the story became infinitely more interesting and more complicated, but impossible to tell in a narrative movie."
Steven Spielberg has bought the movie rights to make a film about the story of the journalist and the voyeur.