State of Play

State of Play is an upcoming American political thriller scheduled for release in 2009. It is a film adaptation of the critically acclaimed British television serial State of Play, which first aired on BBC One in 2003.State of Play was to be released in the United States towards the end of 2008, but the production delay saw the date changed to April 17, 2009.


Premise
The plot will be similar to that of the original six-hour program, retaining several main characters, but condensing and changing certain aspects to fit the two-hour format. The film is set in Washington, D.C. and tells of Stephen Collins (Affleck), a fast-rising United States Congressman with ambitions to become his party's presidential candidate. This goal is threatened after his mistress (a former research assistant) is found dead in suspicious circumstances, while right-wing opponents to Collins' campaign for social reform attempt to use the scandal to kill his political career. During a probe into a series of seemingly unrelated murders, Cal McCaffrey (Crowe), an investigative journalist and Collins' former campaign manager, finds himself tasked with solving the case, becoming romantically involved with the Congressman's estranged wife (Wright Penn) in the process.

Directed by :
Kevin Macdonald
Produced by :
Andrew Hauptman, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Written by :
Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, Peter Morgan, Billy Ray, Paul Abbott
Cast :
Russell Crowe plays Cal McCaffrey, Ben Affleck plays Congressman Stephen Collins, Helen Mirren plays Cameron Lynne, Rachel McAdams plays Della Frye, Jason Bateman plays Dominic Foy, Michael Berresse plays a "sociopathic assassin".
Distributed by :
Universal Pictures
Release : April 17, 2009
Official website : State of Play
Download Trailer : State of Play Trailer