Universal & Playtone Make "Deep Throat" Deal

[RebelMan]

Source: Variety/Comingsoon.net
June 16, 2005


According to Variety, Universal Pictures and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman have signed with W. Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat), the retired FBI man who recently admitted he was the famous anonymous source.

Felt was the shadowy insider who aided the Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in exposing the Nixon administration's role in the Watergate and its cover-up.

Universal has 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. Studio bought the VF article as well as Felt's 1979 memoir and another book that Felt and O'Connor plan to write.

Hanks and Goetzman will produce the film.

[farsighted]

Interesting. i think they will have to buy the name rights from another famous film though..... [img]smile.gif[/img]

haha that's where they originally got the name from I think

Yeah that's exactly where that name came from. Fascinating plot to that movie...

Anyway, after watching All The President's Men, I'd be interested in knowing more about Deep Throat. His internal struggle alone would be enough to interest me.