Julia Roberts will take part in a political scandal
Universal Content Productions has assembled an all-star cast for the film adaptation of the Slow Burn political podcast, dedicated to unraveling the secrets of the Watergate scandal. Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Armie Hammer, Joel Edgerton will star in Gaslit, a series that will tell about the most talked about event in US political life with the help of hitherto unknown stories and heroes. The creators of the series will be authors of "Mr. Robot" Sam Esmail and Robbie Pickering.The show will focus on President Nixon's clumsy and shortsighted subordinates, deranged fanatics and their whistleblowers who ultimately brought about the collapse of a rotten plan. Julia Roberts will play Martha Mitchell, wife of the US Attorney General, the first to publicly announce Nixon's machinations. The heroine's husband, John Mitchell, forced to choose between loyalty to the president and his beloved wife, will be played by Sean Penn. Armie Hammer will portray the ambitious White House consultant John Dean, and Joel Edgerton will play J. Gordon Liddy, a Korean War veteran and former CIA operative who did Nixon's fanatical dirty work. Robbie Pickering is the showrunner for the project, while Joel and Nash Edgerton will share the director's chair. The political show will be Esmail's second collaboration with Roberts, who previously worked together on The Return, also based on a podcast. * - preliminary translation. Source: The Hollywood Reporter The Topic of Article: Julia Roberts will take part in a political scandal. |
