Amy Pascal’s Pascal Pictures has snagged “The Post,” a spec script about the Pentagon Papers penned by Liz Hannah, Deadline reports.

According to Deadline, the spec “frames a feature film about the Washington Post’s role in exposing the Pentagon Papers in 1971, and how the Post’s editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham challenged the federal government over their right to publish them.” While this particular story took place over 40 years ago, the subject matter remains timely, as issues relating to national security, classified information, and the press are dominating headlines in the age of Edward Snowden, the Sony hack, WikiLeaks, and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

“The classified study about the Vietnam War was commissioned by the Defense Department and revealed unreported facts about a secret dramatic escalation of troops and bombings in what was appearing to be an unwinnable war,” Deadline writes. “Military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, pro-war when he started working on the study at the RAND Corporation, became convinced it should be absorbed to set future policy, and leaked the classified information to the New York Times. That paper published a scathing first installment that charged the Johnson administration had systematically lied to the public and to Congress about Vietnam.”

Pascal, who stepped down as Chairman of Sony in the wake of the studio’s highly publicized 2014 hack, will produce “The Post.” Rachel O’Connor will serve as an executive producer, as will Star Thrower Entertainment’s Tim and Trevor White.

“The Post” marks Hannah’s first spec deal. She studied producing at the American Film Institute and got her start working in development.

Other projects in the works at Pascal Pictures include “Barbie” and “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”