{"id":371566,"date":"2026-03-29T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371566\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:51:10","slug":"the-salt-path-movie-set-to-be-released-in-us-amid-ongoing-literary-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371566\/","title":{"rendered":"The Salt Path movie set to be released in US amid ongoing literary scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The US release date for the film adaptation of The Salt Path<\/a> has been confirmed, amid ongoing controversy<\/a> over author Raynor Winn<\/a> and her memoir.<\/p>\n

The movie, starring Gillian Anderson as Winn and Jason Isaacs as her husband Moth, was released in the UK last summer.<\/p>\n

It follows the couple as they embark on a trek along the South West Coast Path, prompted by a series of catastrophes including the loss of their \u201cforever home\u201d and Moth being diagnosed with corticobasal degeneration (CBD), a rare and incurable neurological condition.<\/p>\n

Soon after the film\u2019s release, however, an investigation from The Observer cast doubt upon some of the claims made in the memoir, suggesting that parts of the book, which has sold over two million copies worldwide, may have been fabricated.<\/p>\n

Winn said that the article was \u201cgrotesquely unfair\u201d and \u201chighly misleading\u201d, claiming that it \u201cseeks to systematically pick apart my life\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"GillianGillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs star in the movie adaptation (Black Bear)<\/p>\n

Despite this literary scandal, the film will arrive in US and Canadian cinemas on 22 May, and will be distributed by Rialto. <\/p>\n

The distribution company\u2019s CEO Kelly Rogers described the project as \u201ca film of quiet power\u201d and said that it \u201cspeaks to something deeply human\u201d, according to Variety. <\/p>\n

The film was a box office hit in the UK, where it earned \u00a37.6 million, making it one of 2025\u2019s most successful British indie movies.<\/p>\n

\"AnAn \u2018Observer\u2019 investigation cast doubt on some of Winn\u2019s claims (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

When the Salt Path scandal broke last summer, its publisher Penguin said that it \u201cundertook all the necessary due diligence\u201d before releasing the book in 2018, and said that it had \u201cnot received any concerns about the book\u2019s content\u201d before the investigation was released. <\/p>\n

Winn had been due to release another book, her fourth non-fiction title, On Winter Hill, in October 2025, but its publication has since been delayed to January 2028 after the author suffered \u201cconsiderable distress\u201d. <\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Winn made headlines again when it was revealed that she had previously published a book under a pseudonym<\/a> six years before the release of The Salt Path, which she had widely described as her debut.<\/p>\n

Winn\u2019s lawyer said that she released How Not to Dal Dy Dir in 2012 under the alias Izzy Wyn-Thomas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-371566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}