Richard Dreyfuss Signs on for Spitzer-Like Political Drama

Richard Dreyfuss Signs on for Spitzer-Like Political Drama

by Breitbart News 13 Feb 2014

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/02/13/zipper-drama-sex-scandal

Richard Dreyfuss has signed on to star in a political drama with a plot that sounds all too familiar these days.

Zipper, which co-stars Patrick Wilson and Lena Headey, follows a politician whose inability to control his sexual urges threatens his political future.

Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures is producing the film, which currently is shooting in Baton Rouge, La. Mora Stephens is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Joel Viertel.

In a story that echoes the real-life scandals of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, Zipper centers on the life of Sam Ellis (Wilson), a successful family man who presumably has it all until he risks losing everything due to his inability to fight off his obsessive lust for other women. Dreyfuss will play the role of political operator and kingmaker George Hiller.

Stephens previously helmed Conventioneers, a 2005 story of a GOP convention delegate who falls for a woman protesting the event.

Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer was the New York state government governor, and is a columnist for Slate.

Note: Cliff Sloan was a publisher for Slate, and is a director at the American Constitution Society.

Eric H. Holder Jr. was a board member for the American Constitution Society, a partner at Covington & Burling LLP, an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and is the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration.

Anthony D. Weiner’s consultant was Covington & Burling LLP, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and Common Cause.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and the editor-in-chief & founder for The Root.

The Root is a division of the Slate Group.

Slate is a division of the Slate Group.

Richard Dreyfuss is a governing board member for Common Cause, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and an actor in Zipper.