Hanks goes into the Deep

Hollywood star Tom Hanks' production firm has signed a deal with the man known as Deep Throat to turn his story into a movie.

Former FBI agent Mark Felt, who last month revealed he was the Deep Throat who helped reporters to expose US President Richard Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal, is understood to have signed the deal with Universal Pictures on behalf of Hanks' Playtone company.

Entertainment industry newspaper, Daily Variety said the deal included rights to the stories of the 91-year-old Felt and his family, and that double Oscar-winning actor Hanks and partner Gary Goetzman would produce the film.