该剧聚焦一桩著名的媒体丑闻:传媒大亨默多克旗下《世界新闻报》的电话窃听黑幕。《卫报》调查记者Nick Davies(大卫·田纳特饰)揭露该媒体窃听从王室成员到普通民众的电话,通过此非法手段获取新闻,引发英国新闻传媒行业震动。。After the tremendous popular success of the
Fantômas novels, both of the major French
film studios — Pathé and Gaumont —
vied for the rights to produce films based
on the series. Gaumont won, and from
April 1913 to May 1914 Louis Feuillade
directed five Fantômas films which critic
David Thomson has described as "the first
great movie experience."。