Meryl Streep Starring In Steven Soderbergh’s Panama Papers Drama

A drama directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Meryl Streep? Somewhere an Oscar prognosticator just woke up from a nap and started frantically typing out a blog post. It's true, though: Streep will star for the director in Panama Papers drama The Laundromat.

Soderbergh has Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas in early talks to join her, and is currently looking for a company to distribute the eventual film.

Scott Z Burns wrote the script, adapting Jake Bernstein's book Secrecy World: Inside The Panama Papers Investigation Of Illicit Money Networks And The Global Elite. The tome chronicles how Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca allowed the wealthy and the well-connected to push and hide and money illegally around the world. While the film's actual plot and Streep's character have yet to be revealed, The Hollywood Reporter has learned that she'll be the emotional centre of the story, a way in to a complicated and potentially dry subject.

Streep is back on our screens in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, due on 20 July.