Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep will finally star in the same film together. Although the pair have five Oscars between them (two for Hanks, three for Meryl), upcoming drama The Post will mark the first time the have appeared on the big screen as a duo.

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And they’ll be joined by more star power: as reported by Deadline, Steven Spielberg – who, since we’re counting, has four Oscars – will be directing the film about the 1971 Pentagon Papers scandal. (Just in case you’re not sure, the Papers scandal was when the US government attempted to cease the press from publishing leaked secret warts-and-all reports of the Vietnam War).

This marks the fifth Spielberg/Hanks collaboration after Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal and Bridge of Spies. Streep has also worked with the director when she voiced 'The Blue Fairy' for his sci-fi classic A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

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So, when will The Post come out? Don’t wait up: Spielberg’s got plenty on his plate at the moment with post-production work on sci-fi thriller Ready Player One and pre-production work on 19th-century drama The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, starring Mark Rylance as Pope Pius IX.

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Thomas LingDigital editor, BBC Science Focus

Thomas is Digital editor at BBC Science Focus. Writing about everything from cosmology to anthropology, he specialises in the latest psychology, health and neuroscience discoveries. Thomas has a Masters degree (distinction) in Magazine Journalism from the University of Sheffield and has written for Men’s Health, Vice and Radio Times. He has been shortlisted as the New Digital Talent of the Year at the national magazine Professional Publishers Association (PPA) awards. Also working in academia, Thomas has lectured on the topic of journalism to undergraduate and postgraduate students at The University of Sheffield.

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