When you’re Steven Spielberg, you can get whoever the hell you want to star in your movies, especially if it’s gunning for Oscar glory. It may be June, but the director is fast-tracking his Pentagon Papers movie “The Papers” (formerly known as “The Post“), that will be led by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. And if that leading duo wasn’t impressive enough as it is, the supporting ensemble is a bounty of talent.
Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew Rhys, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bradley Whitford, and Zach Woods have joined the movie that will tell the true story of the Pentagon Papers, released by Daniel Ellsberg, which revealed hard truths about the Vietnam War, and was hugely instrumental in changing public perception and opinion about the country’s involvement. Hanks will play Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, with Streep as publisher Kay Graham, with Liz Hannah writing the script. But good Lord, this cast all knocking around a ’70s newsroom yelling about the Pentagon Papers gives me legit goosebumps. Also, I guess Spielberg recently discovered Peak TV….
Production is now started on “The Papers,” which is slated to open in limited release on Dec. 22nd and go wide on Jan. 12, 2018. [Variety]