Having recently made an Oscar-winning film based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s most recent book with Lincoln, Dreamworks is wont to give it another go. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s forthcoming book The Bully Pulpit:Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism has been nabbed by the studio a week before it’s November 5th release. Seven years in the making, the book (and ostensibly the film):
“Tells the riveting story of two longtime friends who become bitter political opponents. Roosevelt’s fighting spirit and impulsive temperament stood in counterpoint to Taft’s deliberative, conciliatory disposition. Yet, their opposing qualities proved complementary, allowing them to create a rare camaraderie and productive collaboration until their brutal fight for the presidential nomination in 1912 divided them, their families, their colleagues, and their friends. It split the Republican Party in two, and altered the course of American history.”
No word on who might be working on the adaptation or when production might start, but one hopes that its arrival will signal the start of a new golden age of glorious facial hair in movies.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
