The story of US news anchor Walter Cronkite’s protest against the Vietnam war is being turned into a film by Steven Spielberg, according to Variety.
Spielberg, whose last film, Bridge of Spies, was set during the Cold War, is working with that film’s writer, Matt Charman, on the Cronkite story.
The director’s next film is an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG, which had its premiere at the Cannes film festival last month.
Cronkite, the host of CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981 covered many world-changing events, include the assassination of JFK and the Watergate scandal.