The Oscar-winning documentarian is to helm the political thriller Action,about antiwar activists who attacked J Edgar Hoover’s FBI in the early 1970sAlex Gibney, the Oscar-winning documentarian behind Taxi to the Dark Side, or Client 9: The Rise and plunge of Eliot Spitzer and The Armstrong Lie,will obtain his narrative feature directing debut with Action, a political thriller set in the 1970s. According to Deadline, and Gibneys film will centre on eight antiwar activists intent on exposing the systematic surveillance and blackmail of those who crossed J Edgar Hoover,the first director of the FBI.
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Source: theguardian.com