lifestyle SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2017 MUSIC & MOVIES Goldwyn to tackle real-life Scandal in Watergate movie hirty-five years ago on Monday, Richard Nixon's re- Unfairly pilloried Chaos election campaign approved plans to bug Democratic "It's a really great script, and Liam Neeson is going to be so The movie, due out next year, will reaffirm Goldwyn's politi- TParty offices at the Watergate complex, setting in great in it. It's got a wonderful cast," Goldwyn, 56, said. The cal chops after five years in "Scandal" and high profile real-life motion the most notorious political scandal in US history. project, first announced 11 years ago and finally filmed in May appearances on the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton in last Five members of the covert "White House Plumbers" task- and June, is directed by Peter Landesman, an author and for- year's presidential election. He said his character Fitz would find force were arrested six weeks later burglarizing the building eign correspondent turned filmmaker. It is being co-produced the chaos of President Donald Trump's first 50 days-the nation- in Washington, and FBI agents established that the break-in by Hollywood veteran Ridley Scott, his second collaboration wide protests, the halted travel bans and the persistent stories stemmed from a sabotage campaign on behalf of Nixon. with Landesman following "Concussion" (2015), which starred about links to Russia-"deeply disturbing." Such was the resonance of the "Watergate" affair-which Will Smith. "I'm horrified by it and I think Fitz would be too. I'm a ultimately led to Nixon's downfall-that most significant Felt was a longtime deputy to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and Democrat and Fitz is a Republican but Fitz is about as moder- scandals since have been appended with the suffix "gate." was passed over to take over the bureau when its founding ate a Republican as you could ever create," he said. Next up The ensuing political shockwaves reverberated through the director died in in May 1972. The true identity of Woodward and for Goldwyn, who found fame came with a starring role oppo- decades, spawning more than a dozen movies including Bernstein's source remained an enduring mystery and site Patrick Swayze as the treacherous Carl Bruner in "Ghost" "Nixon" (1995), "Frost/Nixon" (2008) and-first and most Washington's best-kept secret until the special agent, by then in (1990), is horror movie "The Belko Experiment," which hits notably-"All the President's Men" (1976). his 90s-unmasked himself to Vanity Fair magazine in 2005. "I'm theaters Friday. Currently in post-production, "Felt" is the first attempt to the guy they call Deep Throat," Felt, who died three years later, Greg McLean's violent thriller casts the actor as Barry Norris, tell the story uniquely from the viewpoint of FBI agent Mark famously told family members. a corporate executive who turns to mass murder when his office Felt, unveiled years later as "Deep Throat," the anonymous Felt and his second-in-command, Ed Miller, were convicted in block becomes the grim venue for a "kill or be killed" social source for reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein dur- 1980 of having "conspired to injure and oppress the citizens of experiment. "I love playing a diversity of characters-the more ing their investigation into the scandal. Starring Liam the United States" over Watergate, although both were eventu- complex, multi-faceted characters are what I really love about Neeson in the title role, the movie also features Tony ally pardoned by Ronald Reagan. "After Watergate, they pilloried the job," Goldwyn said. "That's why I really love playing Fitz, Goldwyn-President Fitzgerald Grant III from ABC's political Felt. It's just such a weird thing. He was unfairly targeted but because he's such a person who has contrast so I get to do all show "Scandal"-as well as Diane Lane ("Trumbo," "Batman v. ultimately pardoned. He was a guy with a long, loyal career. kinds of different things." — AFP Superman: Dawn of Justice"). When I read about it, it was a very unfair thing," Goldwyn said. Goldwyn The Walking Dead A dazzling array of new promises another experiences every day 100 episodes atings juggernaut "The Walking Dead" Jumbo Travel brings you Disneyland Paris' 25th anniversary celebrations revealed on Friday fans can expect to see its umbo Travel in coordination with the Disneyland Paris Peter Pan and the Lost Boys! 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