Voight, who won an Oscar for his role in 'Coming Home', would play a Soviet KGB agent whose job it was to track Reagan, the 40th US president, the Hollywood Reporter said.
The movie is based on 'The Crusader and God & Ronald Reagan', two books by Paul Kengor. The story unfolds as a young Russian leader visits a retired agent named Viktor, the character Voight is in talks to play, so that he may learn of the demise of the Soviet Union.
"Viktor is actually a character based on a number of KGB agents and Soviet analysts who we now know were tasked with keeping tabs on Ronald Reagan for many years. This is a feature film and not a documentary and I thought it was a smart way for the producers to keep the integrity of the story and yet make it entertaining," Kengor said.
The USD 35 million independent movie is being written by Jonas McCord and Howie Klausner.
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