Deadline is reporting that Annette Bening (Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool), Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Jon Hamm (Baby Driver) and Jennifer Morrison (Once Upon a Time) are all in talks to star in VICE Studios’ upcoming CIA drama The Torture Report, which is being written and directed by Scott Z. Burns, screenwriter on The Bourne Ultimatum and Contagion.
The project is set to explore the CIA’s interrogation program following 9/11, which, as revealed by a 500+ report from the U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee, included extreme torture tactics and techniques performed on detainees in the War on Terror.
Bening will next be seen the drama The Seagull, while Driver has Black Klansman and Star Wars: Episode IX on his upcoming slate. Hamm appears in the Warner Bros. comedy Tag and Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale, and Morrison recently made her directorial debut with Sun Dogs, which is set to stream on Netflix this month.
