Hollywood Eyes Hillary Movie

Screenplay about a young Rodham gathers buzz
By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 3, 2013 9:18 AM CST
Hollywood Eyes Hillary Movie
U.Ss Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is seen on a small camera screen as she addresses the media during a news conference at the Security Conference, Feb. 4, 2012 in Munich, Germany.   (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Hillary Clinton might be leaving the State Department just in time to start guessing who gets to play her in a movie: A screenplay making the rounds in Hollywood, titled simply Rodham, follows the exploits of a 20-something Hillary Rodham as she balances the pressures of her job (working to impeach Richard Nixon as the youngest attorney at the Justice Department) with her budding romance with a guy (some would-be politician named Bill Clinton), Politico reports.

"There's this incredible irony that she worked on the impeachment process that was used against her husband," screenwriter Young Il Kim, a 39-year-old South Korean native, tells Politico. There's no sign that the script is close to being picked up, though it is No. 4 on the "Black List," a much-watched poll in which 300 film executives name the best unproduced scripts they've seen. (More Hillary Clinton stories.)

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