Bush: the movie

[Blue Velvet]

By Oliver Stone.

No, it's not the 1st of April yet.


Josh Brolin, currently receiving rave reviews for his slow-burning performance in the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men, is to play the current US president, George Bush, in a film to be directed by Oliver Stone.

The Platoon director, who has been one of Bush's most virulent critics, calling him "the wrong leader at the wrong time" in 2005, says his biopic will be "a fair, true portrait of the man" and will "contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors"...

...

Stone told Variety. "People have turned my political ideas into a cliché, but that is superficial. I'm a dramatist who is interested in people, and I have empathy for Bush as a human being, much the same as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison, Jim Garrison and Alexander the Great."

Stone says that the forthcoming movie, which could begin filming as soon as April and be released in time for Bush's departure from the Oval Office, will focus on certain key events of the president's life. "How did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world," asked Stone."

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2244852,00.html


For once, I'm virtually speechless.

[mactastic]

With a title like that, I thought we were going to be talking 70s porn here...

[Applespider]

Is it a horror, a comedy or a farce?:confused:

[mactastic]

Plus it's seems to be kind of risky to put a movie into post-production while the subject of the movie is still making headlines.

What if something major happens during those months between wrapping up filming and the release prior to Bush leaving office? The movie immediately becomes obsolete...

[Blue Velvet]

What if something major happens during those months between wrapping up filming and the release prior to Bush leaving office? The movie immediately becomes obsolete...


Apparently, a script is doing the rounds for financing. From the sound of it, I'm assuming it'll cover the early part of his presidency. I dunno, the whole idea seems really odd.

But there you go. Who said irony was dead?

[Naimfan]

Is it a horror, a comedy or a farce?:confused:

Yes.

[yg17]

Is it a horror, a comedy or a farce?:confused:

Much like his administration, it will be a mix of all 3.

[themadchemist]

Is it a horror, a comedy or a farce?:confused:

Like the last seven years, probably a bit of each.

[killerrobot]

Well, I'd watch it...I mean how bad could it be compared to the last 7 years?;)

[hulugu]

Is it a horror, a comedy or a farce?:confused:

Congrats, you just wrote the tag-line.

[solvs]

People are already calling it biased before we've heard anything about it simply because Stone is directing. As if anyone who still supports this administration isn't biased. Not that it won't be, and I probably won't want to watch it, but from what I've heard it'll at least be... interesting. Considering the fact that his fans won't want to watch it, and the rest of us wouldn't want to relive anything about him, especially after he's gone, like the rest of the movies like this, I doubt it'll do well. I hear the echoes of "too soon" already.