Dennis Quiad Joins Robert Redford & Cate Blanchett in Dan Rather Film TRUTH

According to Deadline, Dennis Quaid has boarded the upcoming film TRUTH, "the story of the scandal that ended the careers of veteran CBS newsman Dan Ratherand 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes."

Quaid joins the previously announced Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett in the film. He will play Colonel Roger Charles in the film, who was "invaluable in working with Mapes when she broke the blockbuster scandalous news story of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib story. Right on the heels of that triumph, Charles chased the rumor that then U.S. President George W. Bush had ducked serving in Vietnam after he graduated Yale in 1968 and instead got a cushy gig in the National Guard because of the clout of his father, who was an ambassador at the time. Charles and Mapes got caught relying on dubious documents. The ensuing scandal during Bush's reelection campaign against Vietnam vet John Kerry led to the firing of Mapes and left Rather's storied reputation in tatters."

Based on the 2005 memoir Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power by CBS producer Mary Mapes, the movie will center on Rather's 2004 controversial featured on 60 Minutes, which reported that George W. Bush received preferential treatment that put him in the National Guard to avoid being drafted in the Vietnam War. The story broke during Bush's re-election campaign and resulted in the firing of Mapes and affected Rather's reputation as a journalist going forward.

Redford previously starred as newsman Bob Woodward in the 1976 movie All The President's Men. The actor is also a director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Academy Awards: one in 1981 fordirecting Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. In 2010, he was awarded French Knighthood in the Legion d'Honneur.

In April 2014, Time magazine included Redford in its annual TIME 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World" declaring him the "Godfather of Indie Film."