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 ...
Rather biased.
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.
That is how I first found FR. Been here ever since. GREAT work. Really great work.
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.
Thats right! Buckhead!
Thank you for that. This history is ALWAYS worth reading again.
This thing’s almost certainly going to be a chunk of poo, isn’t it?
bttt
Credit where credit is due!
“...suspected to be forgeries.”
Oh lord, soft pedal, sell the revision of history again and again....
you too
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.
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...
Haha!! Well put!
They should call it “Pravda.”
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