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Couple to play founders of Reader’s Digest

Tea Leoni and David Duchovny will give the bigscreen treatment to the story of Reader’s Digest founders DeWitt Wallace and Lila Acheson Wallace.

Through their And Then Prods. shingle, Leoni and Duchovny have optioned “American Dreamers,” a book by former Digest editor Peter Canning.

While Leoni and Duchovny will produce, they likely won’t appear in the film.

“This is what happened to their American dream, when it got filtered through the right wing,” Leoni told Daily Variety. Canning, a 25-year vet of the mag who rose to managing editor, writes that the magazine’s idealistic goals got compromised as it grew into a juggernaut after WWII. It became a pulpit for a conservative agenda, and the founders allowed it to be used as a tool by the CIA and the FBI. The founders also lost themselves when they became rich and passive as people pawed for money and control of their empire. “They were manipulated by a system that was so much bigger than they were. The wealthier they got, the more vulnerable they became,” Leoni said.

The author will be a consultant on the project.

He had difficulty getting his book published, and by the time it was released, hundreds of volatile pages were excised. They will be exploited in film. Leoni said a writer will be hired shortly.

As producers, Leoni and Duchovny recently set up the Universal comedy “Miss Captivity”; the Beacon Communications comedy “Mount Pleasant”; the Showtime pilot formerly known as “Californication,” starring Duchovny, written by Tom Kapinos and directed by Stephen Hopkins; and “Yogaman,” a comedy series written for Showtime by Duchovny, Scott Burns and Bart Freundlich.

Source: Variety