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Steven Spielberg to direct film about publication of Pentagon Papers

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March 7, 2017
Steven Spielberg 1999.jpg More details Director Steven Spielberg speaking at the Pentagon on Aug. 11, 1999. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.

Director Steven Spielberg has signed on to direct Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in a film about the Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

Hanks will star as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Streep as publisher Kay Graham, who challenged the federal government in the Supreme Court over the right to publish the leaked classified documents about U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, the entertainment website Deadline first reported.

Amy Pascal’s Pascal Pictures purchased the script, and Pascal will serve as a producer, along with Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger.

Spielberg is currently in post-production on the Warner Bros. film “Ready Player One” and is also in pre-production on “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara,” about the struggle of Jewish parents to regain their son who was forcibly taken to be raised as a Christian.

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