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Steven Spielberg's next project to focus on US newscaster Walter Cronkite

US journalist Walter Cronkite

Steven Spielberg's next movie will center around legendary newscaster Walter Cronkite reports Deadline.

The project will see Spielberg reunite with Matt Charman and Marc Platt, who worked together on Tom Hanks Cold War film "Bridge of Spies", with it looking likely that Charman will write the script with Platt producing and Spielberg potentially directing.

The movie will focus on Cronkite's role in turning the public against the increasingly unwinnable Vietnam War, with the influential CBS Evening News anchor commenting during a special report, "It seems now, more certain than ever, that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate."

His comments appeared to shift public opinion, with then-President Lyndon Baines Johnson announcing just weeks later he would not be running for re-election in that year's presidential race.

So great was Cronkite's influence that Baines-Johnson reportedly remarked, ""If I've lost Walter Cronkite, I've lost middle America."