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For years the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked a tightrope—balancing his access to powerful Saudi Royals while pushing for reform in the kingdom—until the tightrope became a noose. Khashoggi's murder in 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul—where a "kill team" allegedly dispatched by Saudi Arabia's Crown…

EXCLUSIVE: Lawrence Wright's pandemic novel The End of October is published today by Knopf, and Scott Free is tactfully in the slow process of setting up a movie or limited series that Ridley Scott will eye as a potential directing project with his Scott Free producing. After all, it was Scott’s suggestion to Wright…

As the complicated dynamic between the Trump administration and Saudi Arabia continues to dominate the news, Alex Gibney (Enemies: The President, Justice & The FBI) and Lawrence Wright (The Looming Tower) have teamed to produce House of Saud (working title), a documentary feature that will explore the relationship…

Editor’s note: This story originally ran on May 14. With one Emmy and five nominations to date, Jeff Daniels will compete this year in both Lead and Supporting Categories with roles in two acclaimed series, Hulu’s The Looming Tower and Netflix original Western Godless. Jeff Daniels could be taking it easy. The Emmy…

Hulu's limited series The Looming Tower not only digs deep into the U.S. intelligence failures that preceded 9/11, but also highlights some of the unsung heroes who battled to beat Al Qaeda behind the scenes. For Bill Camp, playing the role of FBI counterterrorism agent Robert Chesney meant becoming a composite…

Documentarian Alex Gibney says he got on board as an exec producer of Hulu’s drama series The Looming Tower because it “seemed like a story that could not be told in pure documentary terms,” but he knew his experience would be a “very useful” tool to “find the reality of the drama.” The 10-episode straight-to-series…

In a New Yorker Festival conversation after a screening of his film LBJ, director Rob Reiner talked a bit about Lyndon Johnson, but also hit on on an array of other issues, from President Trump to the Russia investigation to the legacy of All in the Family. During the audience Q&A, Reiner was asked how his “community&#8221…

Going Clear author Lawrence Wright’s Camp David, a day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David meeting where Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign a still-durable peace treaty, has a couple of Broadway producers attached. Based on Wright’s  Thirteen Days i…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business.  FLEMING: Before we get going here, I want to let readers know we won’t file a column next week. I’ll be away on a long trip and ask…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has put in development God Save Texas, a drama series project written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright (The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda And The Road To 9/11) and executive produced by X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner. It centers on an idealistic cowboy who, looking to save his ranch and…