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Toronto: Dan Rather Scandal Movie 'Truth' Gets Greenlight (Exclusive)
Hollywood Reporter ^
| 09/04/2014
| Pamela McClintock
Posted on 09/04/2014 3:42:50 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
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.
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"Suspected forgeries" *snort*
To: Buckhead; Jim Robinson
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:43:12 PM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: BuckeyeTexan
Still can’t give it up.
And still can’t arouse the least interest in O’s fraudulent history.
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:44:32 PM PDT
by
marron
To: BuckeyeTexan
To: BuckeyeTexan
Death of a President, Part II.
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:46:16 PM PDT
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
To: BuckeyeTexan
I'd Rather not see it if Robert Redford is making it.
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:46:19 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
To: marron
Can anyone locate the flashing graphic of the Bush memo superimposed on the Microsoft word document ?
To: BuckeyeTexan; Buckhead; Jim Robinson
To: BuckeyeTexan
To: BuckeyeTexan
To this day, liberals continue to gloss over and spin the story.
Bottom line is those documents were indeed forgeries, Rather knew they were forgeries, but he still passed them off as authentic. He should have been thrown in the slammer.
To: BuckeyeTexan
I don’t know if you guys hear
Sony and George Clooney are doing Rupert Murdoch hack scandal no word yet on casting
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:51:36 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
To: BuckeyeTexan
“starring Robert Redford as the iconic news anchor”
Yeah. . .like this movie will be an accurate reflection of the fraud and deceit Rather engaged in. . .
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:52:05 PM PDT
by
Hulka
To: martin_fierro
Okay we need casting call who could play Dan Rather and some of the Freepers who busted Dan Rather
Name some actors
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:52:10 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:52:14 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
To: martin_fierro
Credit-where-credit-is-due BUMP.
I wasn’t around here then. So, I’m gonna sit back, shut up, and bow. ;)
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:52:44 PM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: BuckeyeTexan
Paging Buckhead.
I hope they don’t leave out this important role.
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:57:12 PM PDT
by
griswold3
(I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
To: BuckeyeTexan
Even the casting is funny. Robert Redford as Rather and Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes.
Notice the resemblance? LOL!
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:57:43 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Col Frank Slade
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:58:04 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum...)
To: dead
Not really. Cate Blanchett is beautiful.
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:58:32 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: dead
The Lady Galadriel worked for Dan Rather?
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:59:33 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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