Plame Games

Double Oscar winner Sean Penn is in negotiations to join Doug Liman's real life drama Fair Game says Variety.

Based on Valerie Plame -Wilson's book, the real life drama follows she (Naomi Watts) and her husband Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson (Penn) who watched her CIA status at the center of controversy after he wrote op-ed columns that accused the Bush Administration of manipulating 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 Libby who was eventually convicted of lying to a federal grand jury about his role in compromising her covert status.

Libby's 30-month sentence was commuted, but Bush stopped short of granting him a full pardon.

Jez and John Butterworth adapted the script.

Penn would relish a movie that looks unfavorable on Bush 43...

I wonder if the film will mention Richard Armitage at all? Probably not...

Liman had previously sought Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe for the two lead roles.