20th Century Fox har fast tracked Steven Spielbergs
The Papers, der altså vil være med i Oscarskapløbet i 2018. Den får premiere den 22. december 2017 og åbner wide den 12. januar 2018.
Det er et pænt cast den gode hr. Spielberg har banket sammen. På rollelisten finder vi bl.a. Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Sarah Paulsen (People v OJ), Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), Jesse Plemons (Fargo S2) og Bruce Greenwood.
Citat:
The Papers will follow the 1971 scandal after the decision of The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) and publisher Katharine Graham (Streep) to publish The Pentagon Papers. Written and leaked by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers established that the Johnson Administration had lied to the public and congress about US military involvement in the Vietnam War, and revealed that the Nixon administration had secretly escalated the war. The Nixon administration tried to stop The Post from publishing them, and Assistant U.S. Attorney General William Rehnquist took the case to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the paper.
Umiddelbart ligner det en "snakkefilm", men de er også gode. Tom Hanks og Steven Spielberg collabs plejer at være garanti for god underholdning.