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Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks to team up onscreen for the first time in Steven Spielberg drama The Post

Published: 20:36 EST, 6 March 2017 | Updated: 21:56 EST, 6 March 2017

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Hollywood heavyweights Meryl Streep, 67, and Tom Hanks, 60, are to team up on screen for the first time under the direction of Steven Spielberg.

In The Post the pair will defend the media and showcase the heroic side of journalism, playing Washington Post staff members who had a role in the unveiling of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, according to Deadline.

Co-starring: Meryl Streep, 67, and Tom Hanks, 60, will team up on screen for the first time under the direction of Steven Spielberg, to star in The Post

Meryl will play the Post's publisher Katherine 'Kay' Graham, who along with Benjamin Bradlee, played by Oscar winner Hanks, fought the federal government over their right to publish the leaked documents.

The Pentagon Papers was a classified U.S. Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.

The papers were released by Daniel Ellsberg, who gave Bradlee portions of the document to publish.

When Assistant U.S. Attorney General William Rehnquist asked the Post to cease publication, Bradlee refused, leading Rehnquist to seek an injunction in U.S. district court.

Katharine Graham, publisher, and Benjamin Bradlee, executive editor, look over the reports of the Supreme Court decision on June 30, 1971

The Post and the New York Times - who had originally broken the news of the classified document - appealed to the Supreme Court together on First Amendment grounds.

The spec script, written by Liz Hannah, was bought last fall by Pascal Pictures, and deals are currently being negotiated.

When the news was announced on Monday, Hannah took to Twitter to voice her excitement.

Hanks can next be seen in sci-fi thriller The Circle, starring alongside Emma Watson, Bill Paxton, and Karen Gillan

Retweeting a Washington Post tweet that revealed Hanks and Streep's involvement with her upcoming film, she added: 'This is, without exaggeration, a dream come true.'

Meanwhile, Streep is filming for the 2018 musical, Mary Poppins Returns, and Hanks can next be seen in The Circle, starring alongside Emma Watson, Bill Paxton, and Karen Gillan.

The sci-fi thriller hits theaters April 28.