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Annapurna's Fox News movie has found its Roger Ailes. John Lithgow will play the disgraced media mogul in the feature that centers on the women who took on the famed toxic male culture of the news network.

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00:00Joan Lithgow is set to step into the role of former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes

00:04in Annapurna's forthcoming film about the Rupert Murdoch-owned network.

00:08Lithgow will play the disgraced media mogul in the feature that centers on the women

00:11who took on the infamous toxic male culture of the news network.

00:15The Oscar nominee joins Shalise Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie,

00:19who will play Megyn Kelly, Gretchen Carlson and an associate producer, respectively.

00:23The studio, which is already making a Dick Cheney biopic with director Adam McKay,

00:27is financing and producing the project that was written by the big short screenwriter

00:31Charles Randolph and will be directed by Jay Roach.

00:34Ailes ran Fox News and helped launch the careers of Kelly, Carlson and Sean Hannity

00:38with his powerful channel. He was also a prominent figure in Republican circles

00:42who helped elect Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

00:46Ailes was forced to resign in 2016 when a host of accusations of sexual misconduct

00:51surfaced with Carlson's and Kelly's The Most High Profile and which contributed to his exit

00:56from the network. The still-untitled project is described as an ensemble pic

01:00with other likely characters to include former anchor Greta Van Susteren,

01:03media mogul Rupert Murdoch and fellow fired host Bill O'Reilly.

01:07Luthgau recently received praise for his stint as Winston Churchill on Netflix's

01:11The Crown and his next set for Paramount's Stephen King adaptation Pet Sematary.

01:15To read more on this story, head to THR.com.

01:17For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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