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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


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To: Fred Nerks

The first Freeper post was during the broadcast: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1210516/replies?c=107.


81 posted on 09/05/2014 5:27:37 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (Settled science.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan; GeronL; Slings and Arrows
Mythology Entertainment is the driving force behind Truth

George Orwell couldn't have said it better himself!

82 posted on 09/05/2014 8:16:16 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: fatnotlazy
Bottom line is those documents were indeed forgeries,

And nobody went to prison over it.

83 posted on 09/05/2014 8:18:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: martin_fierro

84 posted on 09/05/2014 8:21:41 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign, number sign, or octothorpe. ###)
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To: martin_fierro

85 posted on 09/05/2014 8:22:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: Interesting Times
I say we get Edward Norton to play Interesting Times.

;-)

TS

86 posted on 09/05/2014 8:24:24 AM PDT by The Shrew (www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
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To: SevenofNine

Murdoch wasn’t the only one engaging in such tactics and the police were criminally involved as well.

Communists in Australia and England have been after Murdoch since the 1960s.


87 posted on 09/05/2014 8:26:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: dead
Can they get Axis Sally?


88 posted on 09/05/2014 8:30:34 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: Interesting Times
This is why the leftists worked so hard all those years to gain control of the opinion-forming mechanisms: education, churches, newspapers, TV, movies, books, magazines, even editorial cartoons. So: one of their minions was caught falsifying a story intended to take down a Republican president. The situation was so clear-cut that she and her boss were both fired from CBS News. She responded by writing a dishonest, self-serving book attempting to justify their actions. The book was instantly accepted and sold aggressively by a major publisher - despite the author's complete lack of credibility. Now it becomes the basis for a major motion picture that will define how the clueless remember their slander and lies - as a heroic attempt to tell the truth that was silenced by hateful conservatives.

This needs to be an article. IMHO. Your voice is so clear cut. You have such a deep understanding of the left and their agitprop. You could be the face of the response to this film and you could damage them. But this perfectly lucid statement of truth is a spit in the ocean instead of being a bulwark against the tide.

Write it Scott!

Regards,

TS

89 posted on 09/05/2014 8:31:08 AM PDT by The Shrew (www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes >> This would have been a much better casting choice.

"And I WOULD'VE gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids!"


90 posted on 09/05/2014 8:34:38 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: Interesting Times

Her publisher is OWNED by SeeBS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macmillan_Publishers_(United_States)

Slay the beast by boycotting Big Media. Defund the Left.

They engaged in criminal conspiracy to defraud the public and steal an election.


91 posted on 09/05/2014 8:43:30 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Her publisher is OWNED by SeeBS

That's a good catch - thanks.

92 posted on 09/05/2014 8:46:51 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yeah I know this be interesting if George Clooney get off the ground he been connect for couple years now


93 posted on 09/05/2014 9:05:52 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: ErnBatavia

Bumperootus!


94 posted on 09/05/2014 10:35:02 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Man, slipping that pic in here was just plain under-handed. When I scrolled into that I lost my 4 hour Boehner.


95 posted on 09/05/2014 1:31:30 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

Here’s a timeline...I also posted a link to comment #107 upthread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1212057/posts?page=27#27


96 posted on 09/05/2014 1:57:19 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum...)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

http://www.tosettherecordstraight.com/docs/CH13.pdf


97 posted on 09/05/2014 3:24:35 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum...)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Rodney Crowell - Telephone Road

98 posted on 09/09/2014 7:16:40 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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