There were so many titles I could have thrown in there, and they were all tempting! The Guardian are reporting today that Tom Hanks has bought the rights to Deep Throat’s story, the now not so anonymous source that leaked the story to the two reporters as seen in the movie All the Presidents Men.
The Oscar-winning actor has signed a deal with Mark Felt, the retired FBI agent who recently admitted he was the legendary informer in the Watergate affair. The contract includes the rights to adapt the lives of Felt, his family and John O’Connor, the author of the Vanity Fair article that unmasked the identity of Deep Throat after 33 years and revealed the greatest secret in Amercian political history.
The agreement also covers Felt’s 1979 memoirs, The FBI Pyramide from the Inside, and the forthcoming book he and O’Connor are to write together, A G-Man’s Life: The FBI, Being Deep Throat and the Struggle for Honor in Washington.
Hanks will produce the film together with his production partner Garry Goetzman and Universal Studios. It is not known whether the Saving Private Ryan actor will slip in front of the camera to play Deep Throat.
Wow, that’s one hell of a deal, and probably cost a fortune as well. I’m surprised it doesn’t include the memoirs of the neighbours and gardener as well! Still, it will be a very lucractive film I would suspect, just so long as Hanks does stick to producing it. What do you think?
