The Orange County Register has the first pic of Frank Langella in Ron Howard's upcoming "Frost/Nixon," an adaptation of the Peter Morgan play that was a smash in London last year and grabbed Langella a Best Actor trophy for the New York run this past spring.

Makes sense, I guess.  Nixon was born in Yorba Linda.

There's a lot to expand upon from the play, which is really just a drop in the bucket story-wise.  I actually had a chat earlier this year with a likely-to-be-Oscar-nominated writer who cracked me up when he said "if I knew all you had to do to tell a story was have a side character stand in the middle of the stage and spout off exposition, I'd have written a play a long time ago."

In any case, Langella's performance was a wonderful one when I saw the play in May (though some say he got more and more over the top toward the end of the run).

(Thanks to Obssessed with Film for the tip, which has a shot of the real Nixon peace sign moment up for juxtaposition.)