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Dan Rather Scandal Movie 'Truth' Gets Greenlight
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 9/4/14 | Pamela McClintock

Posted on 09/04/2014 7:46:43 PM PDT by SueRae

RatPac, Echo Lake and FilmNation have boarded the Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett project

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 200409; 20040909; barnes; brownshirtsforkerry; buckhead; bush; danrather; fakebutaccurate; georgebush; georgewbush; kerry2004; kerry2016; marymapes; mediabias; rathergate; revisionism
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To: SueRae

Rather biased.


21 posted on 09/04/2014 8:11:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: eyedigress
I think we are entering another dimension where a lie becomes "truth" and it is all packaged by Hollywood.

If you believe that culture trumps politics that represents a real danger because Hollywood shapes culture. But here we have Hollywood shaping political facts directly.

Paddy Chayefsky should really be writing this or maybe it would make a good episode of Twilight Zone. At any rate, we are watching the theater of the absurd become our culture become our politics.


22 posted on 09/04/2014 8:16:09 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: SueRae
They misspelled "Dan Rather."
23 posted on 09/04/2014 8:17:39 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

That is how I first found FR. Been here ever since. GREAT work. Really great work.


24 posted on 09/04/2014 8:19:57 PM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: nathanbedford

Maybe so, but given the fact that See-BS fired his butt over this very episode makes me think otherwise.

That paste is out of the tube.

Good to hear from you.


25 posted on 09/04/2014 8:20:25 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: KarlInOhio

Thats right! Buckhead!


26 posted on 09/04/2014 8:22:17 PM PDT by subterfuge (Hey NSA snoop, get a real job you idiot!)
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To: SueRae
Mythology is the driving force behind Truth
27 posted on 09/04/2014 8:23:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SueRae

28 posted on 09/04/2014 8:23:22 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: KarlInOhio

Thank you for that. This history is ALWAYS worth reading again.


29 posted on 09/04/2014 8:23:49 PM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: SueRae

This thing’s almost certainly going to be a chunk of poo, isn’t it?


30 posted on 09/04/2014 8:24:26 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: KarlInOhio; Buckhead

bttt


31 posted on 09/04/2014 8:24:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: subterfuge; Buckhead

Credit where credit is due!


32 posted on 09/04/2014 8:25:08 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: SueRae

“...suspected to be forgeries.”

Oh lord, soft pedal, sell the revision of history again and again....


33 posted on 09/04/2014 8:29:34 PM PDT by dila813
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To: eyedigress

you too


34 posted on 09/04/2014 8:31:06 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: SueRae
If we had had the internet Dan Rather's career would have been over long before this- The Wall Within
35 posted on 09/04/2014 8:31:25 PM PDT by Baynative (Free people are not equal, equal people are not free.)
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To: SueRae

I wonder if Bob will be quoting Dan on such things as, “We don’t know what to do. We don’t know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon.”
“If a frog had sidepockets ... well well” “George Bush is happier tonight than a pit bull with two peters.” Etc.
Whatta maroon!

I’m convinced Dan was nibbling peyote buttons during commercial breaks, and Redford’s addled enough to pull that act off. I can see him in a safari coat and Inspector Gadget hat, trying not to drool.


36 posted on 09/04/2014 8:38:06 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: KarlInOhio

The recent “truth” the Democrats have put out is that Rove planted the documents and Buckhead was a paid plant who waited till the program went live and then swooped in the debunk it.

Total crazy conspiracy theory that is “true” because it’s theoretically possible. The evidence for it? None. But that’s just how good Rove is...


37 posted on 09/04/2014 8:38:11 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Haha!! Well put!


38 posted on 09/04/2014 8:39:48 PM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: SueRae

They should call it “Pravda.”


39 posted on 09/04/2014 8:40:55 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: SueRae
They could call it “Lies,” or “Photo Shopped.”
40 posted on 09/04/2014 8:43:14 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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