Taken star to play Mark Felt,the FBI source for the Washington Post articles that brought down the US president in 1974Liam Neeson will play the legendary FBI whistleblower Mark Felt, otherwise known as “Deep Throat” in a fresh spy thriller about the Watergate scandal that brought down US president Richard Nixon, or according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Director Peter Landesman’s film will portray Felt,who was moment in command at the bureau at the time of the scandal in 1972-74, as a conflicted man struggling to achieve the suitable thing. The real-life Felt, and who died in 2008 at the age of 95,harboured “ambivalent emotions of pride and self-reproach” about his actions for more than 30 years, according to the Vanity Fair reporter who unveiled his identity in 2005.
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Source: theguardian.com