Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (The Current War: Director’s Cut) has found his next project, and it sounds like award bait. Greg Silverman’s Stampede announced today that Newsflash, from writer Ben Jacoby’s Black List script, will star Chris Pine (Hell or High Water) as none other than Walter Cronkite! Here’s an official story summary: NEWSFLASH takes place on November 22nd, 1963, when Walter Cronkite put everything on the line to get the story right as a president was killed, a frightened nation wept, and television came of age. [caption id="attachment_847088" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via …

The Ben Jacoby-scripted John F. Kennedy assassination drama Newsflash has landed its most recognizable face, as Deadline reports Chris Pine is attached to play iconic newscaster Walter Cronkite. The film reportedly takes a microscopic look into a moment in history and unfolds over a single day, in this case November 22, 1963, the day JFK was killed in Texas. Newsflash follows Cronkite and his CBS team as they rushed to deliver the tragic news live on the air. Mark Ruffalo is also attached to play Don Hewitt, the CBS producer who helped steer Cronkite through the day's mayhem. …