Rachel to join Brad Pitt/Edward Norton film

Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren and Robin Wright Penn are in negotiations to join Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in State of Play, a feature adaptation of a BBC miniseries. The story follows a congressman (Norton) and his former campaign manager-turned-journalist (Pitt), who find themselves on opposite sides after the politician's research assistant and mistress turns up dead. McAdams will play the youngest reporter at the Washington Globe, who gets caught up in a murder consipiracy. Mirren is the newspaper's tough editor, and Wright Penn is the congressman's ex-wife.

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