Hanks, Streep, Spielberg team up

With journalism and “the Hollywood elite” consistently drawing ire from the Trump White House, it’s no surprise that the two would eventually team up. Oscar winners Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Steven Spielberg are joining forces for a new drama called The Post, which chronicles the Washington Post’s legal battle to publish the classified Pentagon Papers in 1971. Spielberg will direct, Hanks will play the Post’s largerthan-life executive editor Ben Bradlee and Streep will play Katharine Graham, the newspaper’s publisher, according to Deadline.

Details of the film have been kept under wraps since it was bought by former Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal’s new production company in October. The movie’s existence is news to Katharine Weymouth, Graham’s granddaughter, but the media scion said the timing is on point.

“It’s incredibly timely in many ways,” she said. “With the media under attack, I think everybody has thought about it in a new light and realizes the importance of the people out there reporting on the facts.” The Washington Post