We still have to wait a little while for Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, what with the amount of effects required to bring that movie's virtual world to life. But the director has been busy even as that one goes through post-production, and will deliver his next film, The Post, before the end of the year. The first image from the drama, which stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, is now online.
Written by Liz Hannah, the script follows 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 US Attorney General William Rehnquist took the case to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the paper.
Producer Amy Pascal put this one together, and Spielberg recruited a typically stellar cast that also includes Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Bradley Whitford, Jesse Plemons, Carrie Coon and Alison Brie, amongst many others. It'll be on US screens on 22 December for a quick awards run before it goes on general release on 12 January. UK audiences will see it 19 January.
Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks And Meryl Streep Team Up For The Post
Alison Brie, Bob Odenkirk, Carrie Coon And More Join Steven Spielberg's The Papers