Toronto: Dan Rather Scandal Movie 'Truth' Gets Greenlight (Exclusive)

Hollywood Reporter ^ | 09/04/2014 | Pamela McClintock

[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.

[Col Frank Slade]

I watched this entire thing unfold on freep that night. The documents were exposed as a fraud within a few hours.

The flashing graphic sealed RaThers fate.

Watching him squirm over the next several weeks was a sight to behold. Finally CBS canned his ass.

[morphing libertarian]

Harpo Marx

[Col Frank Slade]

Thanks. I gotta save this !!

[Col Frank Slade]

Thanks. I gotta save this !!

[dead]

I would go with William Hickey as Rather and a young Johnny Whitaker as Mary Mapes.

[colorado tanker]

Classic liberal ploy. If history doesn’t support your side, just re-write it. Fake but accurate.

[Rodamala]

Who is being cast as Buckhead?

[Fred Nerks]

I remember...TankerKC mentioned it first, I think it was the famous comment 41 from Buckhead that opened Pandora’s Box. Those were the days...

[Mears]

“Okay we need casting call who could play Dan Rather and some of the Freepers who busted Dan Rather”

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I would love the FR thread that exposed this—I was here that day and was delighted.

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[Calvin Locke]

Some things you just can't make up:

"Mythology Entertainment is the driving force behind Truth..."

[Col Frank Slade]

Mapes looks like Wasserman Shultz with less mayonnaise in the hair.

[Fred Nerks]

I would choose HUGH JACKMAN as Buckhead:

[Rodamala]

I would love the FR thread that exposed this—I was here that day and was delighted.

Post 47

[Chode]

so who's gonna play Buckhead???

[Publius]

Ah, those were the days at FR.

[Mears]

Thanks-—that was quite a day.

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[Bubba_Leroy]

What's the frequency Kenneth?

[Tupelo]

I can’t wait to see how Robert Redford and Kate Blanchet make Rather and Mapes look like a 21st century Woodward and Bernstein. Maybe even a name change to, “All the President’s Men all”

[M Kehoe]

"What's the frequency Kenneth?"

5.56mm

[Bubba_Leroy]

Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes

This would have been a much better casting choice.