Now it's Rebekah Brooks The Movie

The story of Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of News International, the  newspaper publisher at the centre of the News of the World phone hacking scandal, is in development as a feature film.

BiteSize Entertainment, a multiplatform entertainment studio unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival by Ron Bloom, CEO of the online video site Mevio, and producer Gene Kirkwood (Rocky, New York, New York) which has optioned the rights to the Vanity Fair article Untangling Rebekah Brooks by Suzanna Andrews.

Kirkwood told The Hollywood Reporter that the project is still in its early stages. “We will make a film and also use it as a porthole into Rupert Murdoch's world,” he said. “I see it as a Citizen Kane approach.”

Bloom said that like former US President Richard Nixon, Brooks rose from nothing to real power, which can lead to a person’s downfall and her story is one “everyone is afraid to tell.” He added: “She's a great story. Her rise … is almost like Great Expectations – with a moral.”  

So who does he want to play Brooks? “Right now, I would do it with all unknowns, all English actors,” he said.