Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank and Oscar-nominated “Selma” star Tom Wilkinson are attached to star in the fact-based courtroom drama “Denial,” which follows a libel case involving a Holocaust denier.
Mick Jackson (“The Bodyguard”) will direct from a screenplay by David Hare, who adapted the book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier” by Deborah E. Lipstadt. Hare adapted bothย “The Hours” and “The Reader,” each of which earned him an Oscar nomination.
Swank will play Lipstadt, who found herself in a legal battle with Nazi apologist David Irving, who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier.