Editor and Publisherreports that Deep Throat has finally landed a book and movie deal of his own. Mark Felt, who was outed as Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal by his family, will receive approximately $1 million from the deal.
Most of the money will come from a movie deal, with the rights snapped up by Universal and Tom Hanks' Playtone production company. Hanks could end up playing W. Mark Felt, a.k.a. Deep Throat, a kind of Castaway for the past 30 years.
According to published reports today, the family of Felt, 91, has
picked PublicAffairs Books to publish a memoir/as told to next year with Universal Pictures optioning his life story for Hanks.
Lawyer John D. O'Connor, who wrote the Vanity Fair article that outed Felt as Deep Throat, will help out a great deal, as Felt's memories of the Watergate era may be fading. The book's working title reveals that it is broadbased: A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being "Deep Throat" and the Struggle for Honor in Washington."
Is it just us, or are book titles getting longer and longer these days?
