Hanks/Universal Go ’Deep’
After years of silence, W. Mark Felt recently revealed himself as Deep Throat. Why? Well, he’s an old man and he wanted to cash in on his identity before it was too late. And cashing in is exactly what he’s doing.
Universal Pictures and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman have bought the life rights of Felt and his family, as well as those of John O’Connor, the San Francisco attorney whose article reveals Felt’s secret in the July issue of Vanity Fair. In addition, they’ve purchased the rights to Felt’s 1979 memoir and another book that Felt and O’Connor plan to write. Felt was the shadowy insider who aided Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in exposing the Nixon administration’s role in the Watergate and its cover-up. Hanks and Goetzman will produce the film.
Next thing you know, JFK’s real assassin will be coming out of the woodworks to get his movie deal…
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