Liam Neeson is Deep Throat
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 12:07PM
Add another title to increasingly busy September true life drama release schedule. Joining Battle of the Sexes, Victoria and Abdul and Stronger is The Silent Man. The film is based on the life of Mark Felt, the secret high-ranking FBI informant during the Watergate scandal who is famously known as “Deep Throat.” That was of course the pseudonym given to the notorious whistleblower of that scandal. His true identity remained a mystery until, in 2005, Mark Felt revealed himself as the tipster.
Liam Neeson is playing Felt while Diane lane takes on the hopefully not thankless role of his wife. The writer and director is Peter Landesman who has shown an avid interest in these true life investigative stories with Concussion (2015) and Parkland (2013). This first released clip gets an added relevance because of the recent revelations of certain memos written by a certain FBI agent.
Do you document your important meetings in secret memos to use when the need arises?
Reader Comments (8)
I sure do, though not for any reasons having to do with espionage or "dirt-gathering." It simply helps me remember important stuff from meetings.
I watched All the President's Men the other day and was really excited when I heard about this. Then I saw this:
The writer and director is Peter Landesman who has shown an avid interest in these true life investigative stories with Concussion (2015) and Parkland (2013)
Hard pass...
@Ben-Agreed.
Yay Diane Lane!!
Man, Neeson is looking old. I mean, he's aging very well, but I was not expecting that.
Michael C. Hall! Diane Lane! I hope the supporting cast is well used, especially because that clip was so boring I barely remember what happened and I just watched it 10 seconds ago.
I'm in for this cast. Neeson needs another Oscar nomination. He deserves better roles than he's been getting. I like this because it's not Taken 5.
brookesboy: If you're ticking every movie he's starred in like Taken (fast and mean low-budget-non-indie to mid-budget action flicks in urban settings) as "Taken X", then he'd be about to do his eighth. (The previous seven? Taken 1-3, Unknown, Non-Stop, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Run All Night.)
DJDeeJay: Neeson may look old in the clip, but that's likely just make-up and hair to make him look more like Mark Felt. See the photo of Felt on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Felt