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Steven Spielberg’s Pen­ta­gon Papers movie gets incred­i­ble cast

07 Jun 2017

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Man with grey beard and glasses operating a camera and filming equipment in a studio.
Ali­son Brie and Michael Stuhlbarg join upcom­ing dra­ma The Papers.

Ear­li­er this year it was announced that direc­tor Steven Spiel­berg is work­ing on a polit­i­cal dra­ma about the Wash­ing­ton Post’s role in pub­lish­ing the high­ly con­tro­ver­sial Pen­ta­gon Papers in 1971. Pre­vi­ous­ly titled The Post, the film has a new title – and an incred­i­ble cast list to boot.

Tom Han­ks and Meryl Streep were already signed on to the project, but now Spiel­berg has added a host of name char­ac­ter actors includ­ing Ali­son Brie, Car­rie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Green­wood, Tra­cy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paul­son, Jesse Ple­mons, Matthew Rhys, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bradley Whit­ford and Zach Woods.

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The Papers is set to fol­low jour­nal­ists Kay Gra­ham and Ben Bradlee, who were instru­men­tal in releas­ing these leaked doc­u­ments to the pub­lic, tak­ing on the Nixon admin­is­tra­tion and chal­leng­ing the denial of their First Amend­ment rights.

Film­ing is set to com­mence soon, with a 12 Jan­u­ary release date ten­ta­tive­ly pen­cilled by 20th Cen­tu­ry Fox. In the mean­time Spiel­berg will con­tin­ue putting the fin­ish­ing touch­es on Ready Play­er One, his upcom­ing sci-fi thriller star­ring Ben Mendel­sohn, TJ Miller and Simon Pegg.

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