Laura Linney chosen for Katharine Graham biopic

Los Angeles, Nov 15: HBO Films is developing a biopic about Katharine Graham, the venerable publisher of the Washington Post who oversaw the paper`s Watergate coverage leading to the resignation of President Nixon.

The untitled project, which is in the very early stages of development, is being written by novelist Joan Didion and will follow Graham`s ascendancy to the top post at the newspaper after her husband committed suicide in 1963. Should the project go forward, HBO Films is planning to offer Laura Linney the role of Graham. Linney won an Emmy in September for her role as Abigail Adams, wife of the second president, in HBO`s "John Adams." Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning writer/director of "Kramer vs Kramer," is attached to direct the biopic. Bureau Report