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DGA QUARTERLY 89 PHOTOS: EVERETT > ALL THE KING'S MEN Following in the footsteps of Robert Rossen's Oscar-winning 1949 release, writer-director Steven Zaillian recasts his adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from the Depression to the '50s. Sean Penn plays Willie Stark, a corrupt southern politician-turned-demagogue modeled after populist Louisiana governor Huey Long. "The basic morality of the story," said Zaillian in 2006, "the questions it brings up about right and wrong, ends and means, are eternal."