Deep Throat seals movie deal with Tom Hanks to tell Watergate story

Comments | AFP, June, 2005

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Hollywood star Tom Hanks' production firm has signed a deal with former FBI agent Mark Felt, who last month revealed he was Deep Throat, to turn his story into a movie, industry press said.

Universal Pictures on Wednesday inked the deal on behalf of Hanks' Playtone company to bring the story of the shadowy insider who helped reporters expose US president Richard Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal, to the silver screen.

The rights, along with those to a book, were sold for around one million dollars (800,000 euros), according to The New York Times.

Entertainment industry bible Daily Variety said the deal included rights to the stories of the 91-year-old Felt and his family and that double Oscar-winning actor Hanks and partner Gary...