Indie vs. Hollywood in Valerie Plame projects

Valerie Plume became an unwanted victim thanks to the Bush administration – (if Libby were in Russia – there would be no Libby), but in a bizarre set of circumstances her story has become movie material. Now there is justice after all. Variety reports that Rod Lurie will next direct his script containing the same sort of dynamics as the actual case. The Yari Film Group who are distributing Lurie’s Resurrecting the Champ next month are on board and will finance the project with Marc Frydman producing. The project will get an October production start in order to win the race to the first onscreen.

Lurie’s Nothing but the Truth is a drama about a D.C.-based female newspaper reporter who outs a CIA agent and is imprisoned for refusing to reveal her source. Talks are under way for Kate Beckinsale to play the journalist, Matt Dillon the prosecutor, Vera Farmiga the CIA agent, Edie Falco the editor of the newspaper that published the story and Alan Alda the attorney who tries to free the reporter from jail.

The Warner Bros. Pictures  project (untitled Valerie Plame & Joseph Wilson biopic) might focus more on the events prior to than the actual court case, and it will focus on a duel perspective of husband and wife. Jez and John Butterworth are already scripting the Warner pic and Akiva Goldsman and Jerry and Janet Zucker are producing.