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 ...
Robert Redford - i need know no more.....
Any idea how they will play it?
Dan Rather the innocent but lynched victim of right-wing conspiracy nut-jobs?
if it is from a Mapes book, you KNOW it will coverup the forgery.
I mean, really, you could make a movie about Enron executives and make them seem like innocent democrat donors ....
If its anything like “All is Lost”, it will be 2 hours of your life you will never get back.
Some people just need to go away, never to be seen/heard from again.
I am sorry, but I would have taken a third and even fourth GW Bush term over either one of Obama’s and I was pretty sick of GWB by 2008.
Interesting that this is coming up- John Kerry was mumbling something about running again today so I hear
When was the last time Redford made a quality film? Hell, when was the last time he made a watchable film?
Me too, but in 2016 neither Obama nor GWB is going to be on the ballot, so no reason we should have to put up with yet another Bush (or Klinton).
God forbid!
310,000,000 people. I think we can find another family to run for POTUS. Maybe two.
Those who control the present, control the past. Those who control the past control the future.
Yep, Mapes, Redford & Co. will make it seem that Gunga Dan was a hero, and not a partisan hack and fraud.
Redford playing a fearless Washington Post reporter inspired legions of blood-sucking, useless eater gerbalists.
Will this credit FR? Could be good publicity for the only reliable news site on the net.
Can’t wait to see what they do with that.
One doubts that Mister Redford would be in it if "truth" were followed in the script.
Hmmm, how about...
...Pravda?
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Oh it’s Redford? We all know how this is going to turn out.
Lie after lie after lie. But of course, Redford and co. already believe every one of them.
Will Buckhead and FReerepublic be mentioned and trashed I wonder?
Now that right there is funny.... Dang funny and oh so fitting.
What is the frequency, Kenneth?
If only an alternative film could be made -”BIAS” (or “PROPOGANDA”) - telling the story of the American media carrying the Democrat’s water, willingly taking any opportunity to attack a Republican candidate without critically considering the source. The Rathergate episode is but one prime example with Buckhead’s initial pointing to proof the document was a forgery. The last election included Candy Crawley being a useful idiot - accepting the Democrats pre-debate guidance to particular comments that could be interpreted the way she ultimately asserted as proof Obama was correct and Romney incorrect - which upon later reflection she admitted was not entirely accurate. Along with her interjecting herself into the debate at that point, she also had already broken the rules of the debate in Obama’s favor by giving him the last word on a point which should have been Romney’s.
There are just so many examples - Rathergate being the only one that really blew up on them with any consequence. Conservatives need some good researchers and writers to come up with a movie that could really show what the Truth is, versus the Propoganda the media portrays.
This cries out for a documentary movie on the capabilities of typewriters.Start with Mark Twain trying to develop a typewriter, and on thru the various early mechanical contraptions, the development of the intentionally slow QWERTY keyboard layout, the techniques used to center text, the manual return feed anticipated by the bell to tell the typist when to look for the place to interrupt the current line of text, correction fluid and carbon copies, tab stops and the tab key, special characters and the quasi-superscript th key on some models, etc, etc. Discrete spacing of letters, and of lines of paper feed of the typewriter platen.
Along with the mechanical technologies and limitations, address the cultural aspect of the “typewriter” - as the person who operated the machine was known (at least by Will Rodgers if no one else). Typewriting originally considered off-putting as less personal than handwriting. Typewriting as an opportunity for female employment. Sexism and white/blue collar distinctions in the relation of the composer of text to the operator of the typewriter. And, finally, the distortion and noise effects of 2004-era fax and photocopying - and the implications for confidentiality which the existence of a multigenerational copy entails.
It is only in the context of all of that that the contrast between the photocopies of Microsoft WordTM “TANG" documents and an actual 1972 vintage typewritten document can be seen.
If you know all that stuff, the idea that the “TANG Memos” were made in 1972 is a joke. If you know none of it - if you learned keyboarding in grade school and/or never tried to make a document on a 1972-era typewriter, you would be be susceptible to disinformation about the plausibility of those hoax “memos.”
But I guess what I am saying is that, absent a Dinesh D’Souza documentary movie on the topic, the only way the youngish voter will have those facts presented to them - the only way Hollywood’s propaganda can be defeated - would be a crowd-sourced YouTube documentary.
Somewhere there must be museums which display old typewriters . . .
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