Filmmaker Steven Spielberg will be joining hands with actors Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep for The Post, a film that will center on the Washington Posts publication of the 1971 Pentagon Papers.
While Spielberg will direct the film, Hanks and Streep will also star in it, it is reported. Hanks would play Bradlee while Streep will be seen as Graham.
The Pentagon Papers made headlines prior to the article’s publication when the newspaper’s editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham challenged the federal government over their right to publish them..
