Post by dutchy on Jun 16, 2016 8:29:02 GMT -5
Felt: The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.
Noah Wyle plays Stan Pottinger
The film will be released in 2017
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felt_(film)
Felt is an upcoming American spy thriller film directed and written by Peter Landesman. The film is based on the true events about an FBI agent, Mark Felt, who became an anonymous source ("Deep Throat") for reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and helped them in the investigation which led them to the Watergate scandal.[1] The film stars Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Tony Goldwyn, and Maika Monroe.
Cast
Liam Neeson as Mark Felt
Diane Lane as Audrey Felt
Tony Goldwyn as Ed Miller
Maika Monroe as Joan Felt
Kate Walsh as Pat Miller
Josh Lucas as Charlie Bates
Michael C. Hall as John Dean
Marton Csokas as Pat Gray
Tom Sizemore as Bill Sullivan
Wendi McLendon-Covey as Carol Tschudy, Felt's secretary
Ike Barinholtz as Angelo Lano, the head of the investigation
Bruce Greenwood as Sandy Smith, Time magazine reporter
Brian d'Arcy James as Robert Kunkel, FBI special agent
Noah Wyle as Stan Pottinger
Colm Meaney
Eddie Marsan
Production
An untitled project about an FBI agent, Mark Felt, was announced in January 2006. The film was being written by Peter Landesman and being directed by Jay Roach for Universal Pictures and Playtone. Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman were attached as producers. On November 3, 2015, it was announced that Landesman would direct a spy thriller film, Felt, based on his own script about the FBI agent who was also an informant for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Felt was known as Deep Throat. Liam Neeson joined the film to play the titular role. MadRiver Pictures would finance the film and also produce it along with Scott Free Productions, Playtone, and Cara Films, while producers would be Ridley Scott, Goetzman, Hanks, Giannina Scott, Marc Butan, Christopher Woodrow, Roach, and Landesman. Sierra / Affinity would handle the international rights. On November 5, 2015, Diane Lane was cast in the film to play the brilliant and troubled wife, Audrey, who shares the burden of Felt's dangerous struggle against the White House's Watergate scandal. On November 6, 2015, Jason Bateman joined the film to play the role of an FBI agent and Felt lieutenant, Charlie Bates, who discovers that Felt is leaking classified information on the Watergate investigation. On December 9, 2015, Maika Monroe also joined the cast for an unspecified role. On April 29, 2016, a complete cast was announced; Tony Goldwyn to play FBI intel chief Ed Miller; Kate Walsh as Miller's wife, Pat; Josh Lucas as Charlie Bates; Michael C. Hall as John Dean; Marton Csokas and Tom Sizemore as Felt's rival FBI agents Pat Gray and Bill Sullivan, respectively; Wendi McLendon-Covey as Felt's secretary, Carol Tschudy; Ike Barinholtz as the head of the investigation, Angelo Lano; Bruce Greenwood as Time magazine reporter Sandy Smith; Brian d'Arcy James as FBI special agent Robert Kunkel; Noah Wyle as Stan Pottinger; Monroe as Felt's daughter, Joan; and Colm Meaney and Eddie Marsan as CIA agents.
Principal photography on the film began on May 2, 2016, in Atlanta. (Noah was spotted on a plane to Atlanta on 13 june, 2016. From twitter: Somehow always end up on a flight with a celebrity when on my way to Atlanta. #noahwyle has been a long time favorite since #er.
About John Stanley Pottinger
From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stanley_Pottinger
J. Stanley Pottinger is a former Washington bureaucrat, lawyer, investment banker, and novelist.
Pottinger was born in Dayton, Ohio. He was educated at Harvard University and Harvard Law School, graduating with a JD in 1965.
Pottinger held significant roles as a bureaucratic appointee in the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations. From 1970 to 1973, he held the position of the Director of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from 1970–73 and from 1973–77 served as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the United States Department of Justice.
Bob Woodward told in his book The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat (ISBN 0-7432-8715-0) that during a 1976 grand jury appearance over break-ins ordered by Mark Felt, Pottinger discovered that Felt was Deep Throat. During the grand jury hearing, a juror asked Felt, who was testifying, whether he was Deep Throat. Pottinger says that Felt went white with fear. Pottinger instructed Felt that while Felt was under oath and had to answer truthfully, Pottinger considered the question to be beyond the scope of the inquiry and would be withdrawn if Felt wanted. Felt successfully requested the inquiry to be withdrawn.
Pottinger later engaged in a lucrative practice on Wall Street and wrote a best selling book, The Fourth Procedure, as well as several other novels.
In 2013, Pottinger was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.
Background info on the Watergate scandal:
Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972.
Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, aided by Deep Throat, aka FBI agent Mark Felt, broke the news of the link between the burglary and the administration of Republican President Richard Nixon.
A probe by the Senate Watergate Committee and numerous Supreme Court orders forced the President to release the secret tapes of all his White House conversations, revealing that he was complicit in the burglary and had tried to cover it up using the FBI, CIA and IRS.
Facing almost certain impeachment, President Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974.
Noah Wyle plays Stan Pottinger
The film will be released in 2017
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felt_(film)
Felt is an upcoming American spy thriller film directed and written by Peter Landesman. The film is based on the true events about an FBI agent, Mark Felt, who became an anonymous source ("Deep Throat") for reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and helped them in the investigation which led them to the Watergate scandal.[1] The film stars Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Tony Goldwyn, and Maika Monroe.
Cast
Liam Neeson as Mark Felt
Diane Lane as Audrey Felt
Tony Goldwyn as Ed Miller
Maika Monroe as Joan Felt
Kate Walsh as Pat Miller
Josh Lucas as Charlie Bates
Michael C. Hall as John Dean
Marton Csokas as Pat Gray
Tom Sizemore as Bill Sullivan
Wendi McLendon-Covey as Carol Tschudy, Felt's secretary
Ike Barinholtz as Angelo Lano, the head of the investigation
Bruce Greenwood as Sandy Smith, Time magazine reporter
Brian d'Arcy James as Robert Kunkel, FBI special agent
Noah Wyle as Stan Pottinger
Colm Meaney
Eddie Marsan
Production
An untitled project about an FBI agent, Mark Felt, was announced in January 2006. The film was being written by Peter Landesman and being directed by Jay Roach for Universal Pictures and Playtone. Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman were attached as producers. On November 3, 2015, it was announced that Landesman would direct a spy thriller film, Felt, based on his own script about the FBI agent who was also an informant for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Felt was known as Deep Throat. Liam Neeson joined the film to play the titular role. MadRiver Pictures would finance the film and also produce it along with Scott Free Productions, Playtone, and Cara Films, while producers would be Ridley Scott, Goetzman, Hanks, Giannina Scott, Marc Butan, Christopher Woodrow, Roach, and Landesman. Sierra / Affinity would handle the international rights. On November 5, 2015, Diane Lane was cast in the film to play the brilliant and troubled wife, Audrey, who shares the burden of Felt's dangerous struggle against the White House's Watergate scandal. On November 6, 2015, Jason Bateman joined the film to play the role of an FBI agent and Felt lieutenant, Charlie Bates, who discovers that Felt is leaking classified information on the Watergate investigation. On December 9, 2015, Maika Monroe also joined the cast for an unspecified role. On April 29, 2016, a complete cast was announced; Tony Goldwyn to play FBI intel chief Ed Miller; Kate Walsh as Miller's wife, Pat; Josh Lucas as Charlie Bates; Michael C. Hall as John Dean; Marton Csokas and Tom Sizemore as Felt's rival FBI agents Pat Gray and Bill Sullivan, respectively; Wendi McLendon-Covey as Felt's secretary, Carol Tschudy; Ike Barinholtz as the head of the investigation, Angelo Lano; Bruce Greenwood as Time magazine reporter Sandy Smith; Brian d'Arcy James as FBI special agent Robert Kunkel; Noah Wyle as Stan Pottinger; Monroe as Felt's daughter, Joan; and Colm Meaney and Eddie Marsan as CIA agents.
Principal photography on the film began on May 2, 2016, in Atlanta. (Noah was spotted on a plane to Atlanta on 13 june, 2016. From twitter: Somehow always end up on a flight with a celebrity when on my way to Atlanta. #noahwyle has been a long time favorite since #er.
About John Stanley Pottinger
From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stanley_Pottinger
J. Stanley Pottinger is a former Washington bureaucrat, lawyer, investment banker, and novelist.
Pottinger was born in Dayton, Ohio. He was educated at Harvard University and Harvard Law School, graduating with a JD in 1965.
Pottinger held significant roles as a bureaucratic appointee in the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations. From 1970 to 1973, he held the position of the Director of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from 1970–73 and from 1973–77 served as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the United States Department of Justice.
Bob Woodward told in his book The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat (ISBN 0-7432-8715-0) that during a 1976 grand jury appearance over break-ins ordered by Mark Felt, Pottinger discovered that Felt was Deep Throat. During the grand jury hearing, a juror asked Felt, who was testifying, whether he was Deep Throat. Pottinger says that Felt went white with fear. Pottinger instructed Felt that while Felt was under oath and had to answer truthfully, Pottinger considered the question to be beyond the scope of the inquiry and would be withdrawn if Felt wanted. Felt successfully requested the inquiry to be withdrawn.
Pottinger later engaged in a lucrative practice on Wall Street and wrote a best selling book, The Fourth Procedure, as well as several other novels.
In 2013, Pottinger was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.
Background info on the Watergate scandal:
Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972.
Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, aided by Deep Throat, aka FBI agent Mark Felt, broke the news of the link between the burglary and the administration of Republican President Richard Nixon.
A probe by the Senate Watergate Committee and numerous Supreme Court orders forced the President to release the secret tapes of all his White House conversations, revealing that he was complicit in the burglary and had tried to cover it up using the FBI, CIA and IRS.
Facing almost certain impeachment, President Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974.