The “dragon slaying” editor Sir Harold Evans, whose achievements included successfully campaigning for justice for those affected by the thalidomide scandal, is set to be immortalised on screen by Michael Fassbender.
The 46-year-old X-Men and 12 Years A Slave star is being lined up to star in a TV adaptation about Evans, who ran The Sunday Times over a 14-year period from 1967.
Its ambition is to shine a light on the pioneering work of Evans and the newspaper’s Insight investigative team. It follows in the footsteps of All the President’s Men, which starred Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as The Washington Post investigative journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who uncovered the Watergate scandal, and 2015’s Spotlight, which covered the Boston Globe’s
