Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep to star in Pentagon Papers film The Post, and the timing couldn’t be better for Ben Bradlee’s widow
Steven Spielberg film about The Washington Post’s publication of Pentagon Papers that exposed US government deceit on Vietnam war comes as Trump White House wages war on American media
With journalism and “The Hollywood elite” consistently drawing ire from the Trump White House, it’s no surprise that the two would eventually team up.
Oscar winners Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Steven Spielberg are joining forces for a new drama about the fourth estate called The Post, which chronicles The Washington Post’s legal battle to publish the classified Pentagon Papers in 1971. Spielberg will direct, Hanks will play the Post’s larger-than-life executive editor, Ben Bradlee, and Streep will play Katharine Graham, the newspaper’s publisher, according to Deadline.
Details of the film have been kept under wraps since it was bought by former Sony Picture co-chair Amy Pascal’s new production company in October.
Sally Quinn, Bradlee’s widow and a former Washington Post reporter, knew about the project (Spielberg has a house in the Hamptons across from Quinn and Bradlee’s) but had previously been sworn to secrecy.
