India, Oct. 9 -- Chris Hansen was the first person to speak against Primetime, the new film in which Robert Pattinson plays the former TV host. The film chronicles Hansen's rise and the birth of his iconic show, To Catch A Predator. The show saw Hansen catch American men in sting operations as they tried to meet minors for sexual relations. The show was a hit on TV in the early 2000s before it all came to a grinding halt after a subject killed themselves on the show.

Primetime, directed by Lance Oppenheimer, stars Pattinson as Hansen, and shows how exactly the show began and what went down on that fateful night when Bill Conradt shot himself. Amid the praise the film has received and the criticism from its subject, Chris Hansen, writer A...