Hat tip to Peter Chattaway.

Figures.  You have to hand to to them, they will milk this non story for every penny.¹

Plame film in works at Warner Bros.

Studio sets movie about CIA leak scandal

Warner Bros. is developing a feature on the lives of Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the married couple drawn into a D.C. firestorm.

Plame’s status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.

Yep, that’s the story we all came to love.  The fact that Wilson was a partisan hack who violated state department confidentiality and lied to the CIA has nothing to do with it any more then the fact that Plame cherry picked her husband for this mission.

The film is a co-production between Weed Road’s Akiva Goldsman and Jerry and Janet Zucker of Zucker Productions.

David Zucker would be more appropriate.

WB has secured the life rights of Plame and Wilson. Studio also will use Plame’s memoir, “Fair Game,” if the CIA permits her to publish it. Plame made a reported publishing deal in the $2.5 million range last year, and Simon & Schuster is expected to publish late this year. While it would be ironic for Plame’s story to be illegally leaked by the White House, only to have another government branch deny her the right to tell it herself, the CIA has the latitude to silence Plame.

Oh and if they do, the lawsuits…the scandals…be a movie all on its own.

She left the agency in late 2005 and she and Wilson have filed a civil lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former chief of staff for Cheney who’s currently on trial, defending himself against charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to FBI agents who were investigating the leak of Plame’s identity to journalists

“Almost everything that we need for the movie is available from print outlets,

Well that relieves them of having to be truthful.

…and obviously we haven’t read the book yet because it hasn’t been approved by the CIA,” Jerry Zucker said. “Valerie has been incredibly careful with what she tells us, it’s almost like she is still working for the CIA. The biggest element of the movie to us is the story of two people who spent their lives in service of their government, and were then betrayed by that government.

I hear Oscar calling….

I voted for either Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes to play them, or maybe Danny Devito and Rhea Perlman.

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