Chris Pine to play Nixon Attorney John Dean for Amazon Studios – Variety



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Amazon Studios has found a feature film starring "Wonder Woman" star Chris Pine as John Dean, a key figure in the Watergate scandal.

The film follows the life and political saga of Dean, White House lawyer for President Richard Nixon from July 1970 to April 1973. Amazon bought the development project from producers Bob Cooper – a Hollywood veteran – under his banner Landscape Entertainment and prolific screenwriter Billy Ray ("Gemini Man", "Overlord" and the adaptation in English of "The Secret in Their Eyes") of Home Run Productions.

Dean himself will be the executive producer of the project with his manager, Rick Berg. The rising screenwriter Evan Parter, whose scripts have appeared more than once on the annual blacklist, writes the project.

Affirmed by the press as a "connoisseur of concealment," Dean became a crucial whistle-blower for Nixon by offering a testimony that implicated the president in historical concealment. In exchange, he was under house arrest for four months and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. Since then, he has written many books and is a political commentator. In recent years, he has sharply criticized the Republican Party and President Donald Trump.

Ray is taken over by CAA and lawyer Peter Nichols. Pine is alongside CAA, John Carrabino and Gendler & Kelly. He will appear in the sequel "Wonder Woman: 1984", directed by Patty Jenkins, alongside Gal Gadot.

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