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24-11-2007, 02:14 PM
Film on outed CIA agent in the works
Warner Bros. is developing a feature film on Valerie Plame, the former CIA operative outed by White House officials, Daily Variety reported Saturday.
The film will be based on Plame's upcoming memoir, Fair Game, the publishing rights to which were purchased by Simon & Schuster for a reported $2.5 million US after a previous deal with Crown Publishing Group fell through.
Jez and John Butterworth are writing the screenplay for the movie, Variety said. The brothers recently penned Superbad, a James Brown bio that Spike Lee will direct.
Producer Jerry Zucker said the movie will centre around the lives of Plame and her husband, former U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson: "Two people who spent their lives in the service of their government, and were then betrayed by that government."
The film, though, could face an obstacle from the CIA, which reviews the manuscripts of former agents and could censor sensitive passages of Plame's book or try to halt its publication, scheduled for late 2007.
Plame's unmasking led to a federal investigation and the indictment of a top vice-presidential aide.
White House aide standing trial
In 2003, Wilson accused the Bush administration of distorting intelligence about Iraq's links with terrorism and weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war.
He had investigated a White House claim that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium in Niger and found it to be false.
Syndicated columnist and CNN host Robert Novak named Plame in a column on July 14, 2003, eight days after Wilson's opinion piece was published in the New York Times.
The leak ended her career as a CIA agent and a federal investigation showed the leak had come directly from White House officials.
White House adviser Karl Rove was reported to have said that Plame was "fair game" after Wilson's article was published.
Lewis Libby, Vice-President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, is standing trial on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying to the FBI and a federal grand jury about how he learned Plame's identity.
As of Saturday, the jury was still deliberating the verdict.
info from: Here (http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2007/03/04/valerie-plame-movie.html)
Warner Bros. is developing a feature film on Valerie Plame, the former CIA operative outed by White House officials, Daily Variety reported Saturday.
The film will be based on Plame's upcoming memoir, Fair Game, the publishing rights to which were purchased by Simon & Schuster for a reported $2.5 million US after a previous deal with Crown Publishing Group fell through.
Jez and John Butterworth are writing the screenplay for the movie, Variety said. The brothers recently penned Superbad, a James Brown bio that Spike Lee will direct.
Producer Jerry Zucker said the movie will centre around the lives of Plame and her husband, former U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson: "Two people who spent their lives in the service of their government, and were then betrayed by that government."
The film, though, could face an obstacle from the CIA, which reviews the manuscripts of former agents and could censor sensitive passages of Plame's book or try to halt its publication, scheduled for late 2007.
Plame's unmasking led to a federal investigation and the indictment of a top vice-presidential aide.
White House aide standing trial
In 2003, Wilson accused the Bush administration of distorting intelligence about Iraq's links with terrorism and weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war.
He had investigated a White House claim that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium in Niger and found it to be false.
Syndicated columnist and CNN host Robert Novak named Plame in a column on July 14, 2003, eight days after Wilson's opinion piece was published in the New York Times.
The leak ended her career as a CIA agent and a federal investigation showed the leak had come directly from White House officials.
White House adviser Karl Rove was reported to have said that Plame was "fair game" after Wilson's article was published.
Lewis Libby, Vice-President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, is standing trial on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying to the FBI and a federal grand jury about how he learned Plame's identity.
As of Saturday, the jury was still deliberating the verdict.
info from: Here (http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2007/03/04/valerie-plame-movie.html)