Alex Gibney, the director behind such documentaries as Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, The Armstrong Lie and the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, is set to make his narrative feature film debut with The Action, a 1970s-set political thriller which is being produced by Lionsgate.
According to Deadline, the film ” follows eight anti-war activists who stole and made public classified FBI documents that exposed J. Edgar Hoover’s campaign of spying on and blackmailing troublemakers.” The script has been written by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion), who will also produce alongside Meredith Milton (Step Up) and Michael Sugar (Spotlight).
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Originally published April 4, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
