Posted on 06/16/2005 10:40:32 AM PDT by Howlin
Tom Hanks' production company has bought the film rights to the life story of Mark Felt, the former FBI official recently revealed to have been Deep Throat, it was reported today. Universal Pictures is understood to have secured the rights for development by Playtone, the company co-owned by Hanks and Gary Goetzman, the New York Times reported today.
The rights, along with those for a book to be published by respected non-fiction house PublicAffairs, are believed to have been sold for almost $1 million (£550,000).
Peter Osnos, the chief executive of PublicAffairs, said the book is expected to be published in spring next year.
It will combine Mr Felt's memoirs and his meetings with Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter he gave secret information to during the Watergate investigation, with material written by John O'Connor, the lawyer who wrote the Vanity Fair article revealing Deep Throat's identity.
Contracts are expected to be announced today.
The movie rights should form the bulk of the payment to Mr Felt, but the full sum will depend on whether a film is eventually produced.
He has said he decided to unmask himself as Deep Throat to raise money for his grandchildren's education.
Meanwhile, the Nation magazine will reveal that he twice led FBI probes into finding the source of the leaks.
Writers David Corn and Jeff Goldberg found documents in once-confidential FBI files now available to the public that showed Mr Felt in charge of finding the source of Woodward and Carl Bernstein's Washington Post scoops that helped bring down President Richard Nixon.
"How Deep Throat Fooled the FBI", which shows how Mr Felt cleverly threw the federal agency off his trail, was posted will be published on June 23 and is already available on the magazine's website.
"He was much more than a secret sharer. He was an operator," says the story, adding he "was able to watch his own back and protect his ability to guide the two reporters".
At one stage, Mr Felt officially met with Woodward in what appears to have been a move to cover himself, the story said.
He agreed to see the reporter in the presence of his assistant, a 25-year FBI veteran, but did not confirm any details presented to him by Woodward. "That was obviously a staged event," Corn said. "Felt needed cover."
He does this every time you get to close to the truth!
I told him last time ,if he can't take the heat he shouldn't play with fire,but does he listen,of course not!
Monkey Face wrote:
He's not only outclassed, it would seem he's outta here...maybe the kitchen got a little warm for him...LOL
Don't you have another screen name? Why pretend to be a new outraged person?
LOL!
About the time he really lost his cool, huh? I love it!
LOL.
Oh well,what can I say!
ohioWfan wrote:
Just for the FR record.
I haven't told a single lie about anything, and everyone here (except you) knows that.
ROFLMAO!
Who said I was new? You. Oh but I am forgetting: You are ECON GRAD! The know-all and see-all of the forum. *bowing low in mock respect*
Get a life! And you will never see the day when I am outraged because you don't know what it would take to make me so, even though you ARE an econ grad. (Like that makes the world go around, yes?)
LOL.
So it seems!
Common sense though can't be taught in school,you either have it or you lack it and he sure has a lack of common sense,heck my cat has more common sense then him.
If TX feels slandered, have him come talk to me. I don't deal with his surrogates.
Don't you have another screen name?
econ_grad wrote:
Don't you have another screen name? Why pretend to be a new outraged person?
"If TX feels slandered, have him come talk to me. I don't deal with his surrogates."
LOL! Do you have any idea how ridiculous your command of the English language is???? This is too good!
He did talk to you.
You refuse to apologise.
And don't pretend not to know what we're talking about either.
I have the thread up at the moment.
Like you continue to claim that I disparaged the military. Like you continue to claim I said TX shoots innocent people. The funny thing is that got paraded by the rest of the parrots who don't know how to read. Between me and you, you threw the first stone and you know it.
Do YOU have another screen name?
Nice to know that instead of debating facts and points, you continue with your insults and projectionsism.
"Don't you have another screen name?"
I've been here over four years, newbie. Does my screen name offend you? And if I did have another screen name, why would I tell you? Wassamattah? You no likee talking to monkeys with faces????
YOU DID SAY THAT!
I was there when you said it!
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