Annette Benning, Jon Hamm, Adam Driver, More to Star in CIA Drama The Torture Report

Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Adam Driver and Jennifer Morrison are currently in talks to star in a CIA drama tentatively titled The Torture Report, written and directed by Contagion and The Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, according to Deadline.

In December of 2014, a 500+ page report was released by the U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee reporting intense accounts of interrogation tactics used on detainees. These tactics were employed by the CIA in face of the post-9/11 war on terror. Vice Media is financing the film, whose primary focus is the CIA’s rendition and interrogation programs of the early 2000s.

This would be a far more interesting idea if similar stories like this hadn’t already been made. In 2007, the Reese Witherspoon-helmed Rendition was literally about a Muslim man, married to Witherspoon’s character, being illegally detained due to post-9/11 paranoia. There was also the 2012 Kathryn Bigelow-directed, Oscar-winning Zero Dark Thirty, which recounted torture techniques used on terrorists that many critics considered too harsh to show. Regardless of one’s opinions on this issue, hopefully The Torture Report will bring something new to the table and not just retrace other films’ steps.

Bening is a four-time Oscar-nominated actress whose career spans over three decades. She most recently starred in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool with Jamie Bell and can be seen this May in a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull with Saoirse Ronan.

Annette Benning, Jon Hamm, Adam Driver, More to Star in CIA Drama The Torture Report

From Contagion and The Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter Scott Z. Burns