The filmmaker behind the controversial Scientology documentary Going Clear is to turn his lens on disgraced former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes.
Ailes was stood down from Fox News in 2016 after a series of explosive allegations surfaced in which he was accused by a number of high-profile female colleagues of sexual harassment.
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Alex Gibney has confirmed he is working on a documentary about the episode, but has not released any specific details about it.
"As a matter of course, I don't talk about what I'm working on," he told The Hollywood Reporter.
The 63-year-old New York-born filmmaker is no stranger to controversy.
Gibney's 2015 documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief won three Emmy awards, the best documentary award from the Writer's Guild of America and a Peabody Award.
Another Gibney documentary, 2007's Taxi to the Dark Side, which explored the use of torture by the United States, won an Academy Award and a Peabody Award.
Gibney's other works include Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream and We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks.
At least two other Ailes-related projects are in development.
They include a film from Annapurna Pictures written by Charles Randolph and a miniseries from Blumhouse Television based on the book The Loudest Voice in the Room, by Gabriel Sherman.
Ailes was stood down from Fox News in 2016 after damaging allegations from one of the channel's presenters, Gretchen Carlson, in which he was accused of sexual harassment.
Carlson also alleged she was fired for refusing Ailes' advances.
In the aftermath of that accusation, others spoke up alleging sexual harassment.
Reports also surfaced that during the internal investigation another presenter, Megyn Kelly, confirmed she had been the recipient of "unwanted sexual advances" from Ailes.