A couple of old lefty has-beens.
Posted on 09/04/2014 3:42:50 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
James Vanderbilt's Truth, the high-profile movie chronicling the scandal that derailed Dan Rather's career, has gotten the greenlight to begin shooting this fall.
Brett Ratner's RatPac Entertainment and Echo Lake Entertainment will finance the movie, starring Robert Redford as the iconic news anchor and Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes, Rather's producer. At the same time, FilmNation has come aboard to represent international rights and will pre-sell the project to foreign buyers at the Toronto Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday night (based on the cast, it's sure to whet appetites).
Mythology Entertainment is the driving force behind Truth, which was first announced in July.
Based on Mapes' 2005 memoir Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, Truth centers on the on the firestorm and ensuing "Rathergate" scandal that erupted in September of 2004 after Rather reported that George W. Bush had received special treatment while serving in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, a report that was based on some documents that were suspected to be forgeries.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
see INTERNET SKEPTICISM SPREADS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1210516/replies?c=107
Liberal moonbats believe in the seriousness of the charge - that’s what’s important.
Are Jim and Buckhead available to play themselves?
Buckhead will be played by Jon Voight, and JimRob by Peter Dinklage.
Buckhead vs. Dan Rather Internet David Slays Media Goliath
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227210/posts
In his now legendary post 47, Buckhead argued,
Howlin [another FReeper username], every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
It will be interesting to see how they avoid what actually happened."
They’ll likely try to make Rather look like a victim. Bank on it.
Who will play BuckHead and JimRob?
Something is truly wrong with our country!
Cary Grant and John Wayne, of course.
In related news, Hollywood Faces A Record-Setting Box Office Slump.
Gosh, why oh why doesn't anyone go to the movies anymore? Could it be that people don't want to pay $15 per ticket to watch crap?
Yep. I'd love to be wrong about that, but it's all about the narrative and this is going to be the "official" narrative.
geez i thought i would be early with that question... not #48
“I’d Rather not see it if Robert Redford is making it. “
Ole Crater Face isn’t the “pretty boy” he used to be. Hope it bombs!
Thanks so much.
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Googled him. Unlikely as it may be, he actually is one of those Vanderbilts.
“Brett Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment and Echo Lake Entertainment will finance the movie, starring Robert Redford as the iconic news anchor and Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes, Rather’s producer.”
Oh please spare me. These idiots never give up.
The choice of the title tells us that this movie will be a Rather whitewash. Rather claimed weeks after he and his program were totally destroyed by the evidence that the “story” was true even if one cornerstone had some “problems.” They are going to have a screenplay showing the heroic rather fighting to unmask the evil Bush and how the unwashed internet losers undermined the exposure of the “real” truth.
Lunch bets being taken now.
A couple of old lefty has-beens.
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