Which prompts the question: who will play Irving in the movie? London, Friday, September 19, 2008   [New Film planned on Lipstadt Trial] by Simon Round David Irving comments: JOHN ("Fawlty Towers") Cleese to play Deborah Lipstadt? That's a bit cruel.    I had admittedly long wondered who would land this lead role, now that Rock Hudson is dead. WE HEAR that the book written by academic Deborah Lipstadt, History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving, about her legal battle with the Holocaust-denying historian, has now been optioned by a film company. Which prompts the question: who will play Irving in the movie? We reckon that Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jack Nicholson could be among the front-runners. Or how about John Cleese in the lead role?   David Irving's Books The Deborah Lipstadt Libel action A film to be directed by Ridley Scott, about David Irving and Deborah Lipstadt and the famous Holocaust denial trial Deutsche Welle (German propaganda radio) reports: Screenplay writer Ronald Harwood working on a film of the trial of David Irving [sic]

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