Wonder Woman co-star Chris Pine is attached to portray Walter Cronkite in Newsflash. The very same CBS newsman who very famously covered the assassination of the 35th president of the United States, President John F. Kennedy. Pine joins a cast that already includes Avengers: Endgame’s Mark Ruffalo, cast in the role of Cronkite’s producer Don Hewitt.

Previously it was announced that The Boys‘ Seth Rogen was attached to portray Cronkite when the project was set to be directed by David Gordon Green. The two eventually left the project to go and reinvigorate the Halloween series.

The plot for Newsflash takes place on the fateful day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Newsflash is set to be a taught drama set on the day news was forever changed on November 22, 1963.

Here’s a synopsis for the project:

“Cronkite, Hewitt, their boss Jim Aubrey, and Dan Rather, a young news man who happened to be in Texas and who first distinguished himself as a dogged reporter as he and other journalists frantically dug for truth after reports went over the wire that gunfire rang out in vicinity of the president’s motorcade.”

Chris Pine is a charismatic lead for sure. He was a perfectly cast Kirk evidenced by his foray into the world of Star Trek. Part of me wishes that series didn’t sputter out with the third film in the trilogy Star Trek Beyond.  But these things just happen, and that’s the way it is. Newsflash’s release date is TBD.

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