Given all the jaw-dropping scoops they’ve been churning out, The Washington Post’s editorial meetings must be pretty interesting already. But today, the daily meeting leveled up with the appearance of Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and Steven Spielberg.

They’re apparently doing research for their upcoming film about how The Washington Post handled the Pentagon Papers, a series of leaked documents about the U.S.’s role in the Vietnam War.

Hanks will play Ben Bradlee, one of The Post’s most famous editors, Streep is slated to be publisher Kay Graham, and Spielberg will direct, according to the Internet Movie Database.

According to an insider account at The Washington Post, the group, which also included producer Amy Pascal, Spielberg’s DreamWorks partner Kristie Macosko Krieger, and screenwriter Josh Singer, got a tour of the office and had meetings with publisher Fred Ryan and executive editor Marty Baron.

Then, the group was off to The Post’s production facility in Springfield, Va., the paper says. “They wanted to see when you say, ‘stop the presses!’ what that really means,” Ryan told The Post.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like Hanks brought along an espresso machine for the newsroom, which he has now done three times for the White House Press Corps.

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