{"id":12448,"date":"2011-07-21T05:52:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T04:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=12448"},"modified":"2011-07-27T15:11:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T14:11:06","slug":"casting-the-murdoch-movie-hackgate-news-international-phone-hacking-guardian-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/07\/21\/casting-the-murdoch-movie-hackgate-news-international-phone-hacking-guardian-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting the Murdoch Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12449\" title=\"Hackgate The Movie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Hackgate-The-Movie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who would play who in a film about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal\">the current phone-hacking scandal<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s obvious that this story deserves better than some wishy-washy one-off BBC2 drama, so how about reuniting the creative team behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/11\/the-social-network-review\/\">The Social Network<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>But once the triumvirate of producer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Rudin\">Scott Rudin<\/a>, director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Fincher\">David Fincher<\/a> and screenwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aaron_Sorkin\">Aaron Sorkin<\/a> have been hired, who should be cast in this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/interactive\/2011\/jul\/19\/who-knew-who-phone-hacking\"> complex web<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/05\/magazine\/05hacking-t.html?pagewanted=all\">media<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2011\/jul\/20\/david-cameron-rupert-murdoch-bskyb\">government<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/audio\/2011\/jul\/21\/media-talk-podcast-phone-hacking-murdoch\">police<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Below are some suggestions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Hackgate-The-Movie-Updated-Cast1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12529\" title=\"Hackgate The Movie - Updated Cast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Hackgate-The-Movie-Updated-Cast1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"5751\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(N.B. If you want to know who the people are just Google them)<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal\">More on the News International phone hacking scandal at Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-14045952\">BBC News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\">The Guardian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/05\/magazine\/05hacking-t.html\">New York Times<\/a> with further coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would play who in a film version of the News International phone-hacking scandal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[2121,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}