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Paramount Is First In Line For The Shop
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Well the only other movie I can think of that was based on a Vanity Fair article was The Insider, and that was a fantastic film that managed to generate box office and Oscar buzz -- what more could you want? I would imagine that Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Jason Blum had similar ideas about adapting a high profile VF article,when they picked up their latest project for Paramount.Variety reported that Blum and Di Bonaventura have bought the rights to David Wise's article The Shop for Paramount. Wise's article has yet to be published, but already a movie deal is on the table -- wow, they didn't waste any time did they? Wise, an investigative journalist, co-authored the infamous book about the CIA called The Invisible Government. Wise also is remembered for a column in the New York Times in 1981, that attacked Reagan for the pardon of Mark Felt (who's now probably better known as Woodward and Bernstein's Deep Throat).
Details about the project are being kept under lock and key, since the article hasn't even published. Plus, would you expect any less from a project about the intensely secret organization? Kelley Sane has already been hired to adapt the piece, but there is no word of a director yet, I can only assume it will be on a "need-to-know" basis. ...
[via Empire Online]
Deep Throat (the real one) movie on the way
Filed under: Drama », Deals », Universal », Newsstand »
Way back in the 1970s, clever Washington
Post employees named Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate tipster after the hip porn flick that all the cool kids
were going to see - thus "Deep Throat" was born. And now, though it's probably a safe bet that it will not be
named after its central character, a movie about Mark Felt (recently reveal to be THE Deep Throat) is in the works. The
film will be written by the largely untested (in his day job he writes for the New York Times Magazine, but
has recently begun penning films as well) Peter
Landesman and directed by Jay
Roach, whose able direction of all three Austin Powers
movies surely qualifies him to undertake this project. Shortly after Felt told his story to Vanity Fair, Playtone - Tom Hanks' production house - acquired the life rights to both Felt and his family (wow, that's a creepy phrase) and a memoir written by Felt in 1979; Playtone will be producing the film for Universal. Obviously, then, the movie will focus more on Felt's "motivations and the weight of keeping [his] secret" than it will the facts of Watergate. Which is probably good thinking, since All the President's Men already did the latter pretty much to perfection.
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