First Clip from 'Fair Game'

Screening in Cannes on May 20

By: Brad Brevet
Published: Thursday, May 13th 2010 at 12:55 PM

I will be seeing Fair Game here at the Cannes Film Festival on the morning of May 20 and I will have Valerie Plame's book, of which the film is based, finished by that time as well and it's an interesting one to say the least, especially considering about 50% of the first 100 pages are blacked out due to CIA confidentiality restrictions.

I expect the film to be fascinating, but I'm wondering how it will do at the box-office as it is yet again another film with Iraq War written all over it, though director Doug Liman said in an interview he believes there's a difference. In his words, that difference being "it's a really great movie":

"I think it's in the spectrum of 'It's a really great movie.' And a lot of other movies that have been about the war or dealt with the war have not been great movies. In fact, they've been motivated more by politics than by story, and that's been a turn-off to audiences. This is sort of the first political movie that’s been made where I feel like the commitment was there from the first moment to story and character, and not to politics."

The film tells the true story of Valerie Plame Wilson (Naomi Watts) and her husband Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) as Valerie was outed as an undercover CIA operative after her a husband wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times discussing the results of his trip to Africa, results that were exaggerated beyond the truth and used in part to sell America on an invasion of Iraq.

The first clip from the film is directly below and I have a gallery of five images from the film right here. Summit is set to distribute later this year.

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