Summit Frames Liman’s ‘Fair Game’

Much in the same way Summit took The Brothers Bloom off the AFM table just prior to the fest/market unfolding, they’ve made an important pre-buy, grabbing the Cannes-selected title from Doug Liman before it has a chance to play-out to the studios and remaining indie divisions looking for an easy political drama grab. Along with Jodie Foster’s The Beaver, Fair Game would probably be set in the Fall-Holiday season – many, including this site, see the title with award seasons glitter.

This is based on the lives of Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the married couple drawn into a D.C. firestorm. Plame’s status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq. Plame Wilson left the CIA in 2005 and she and her husband filed a civil suit against Vice President Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Cheney’s ex-chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby. While Rove and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage admitted they leaked her agency status to journalists, Libby was convicted of lying to a federal grand jury about his role in compromising her covert status. Then-President George W. Bush commuted Libby’s 30-month sentence in 2007, but stopped short of granting him a full pardon, despite aggressive lobbying by Cheney before Bush left the White House in January.