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BelAir:
I am one of those people who doesn't like 'historical' movies to be released in such closeness (at least temporally) to real events...
oilgun:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 21, 2008, 10:19:41 am ---I am not quite sure what I think about this...
January 21, 2008
Oliver Stone to Make "Fair" Movie About George W. Bush
By REUTERS
Filed at 9:00 a.m. ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Oliver Stone, who has made movies about Presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, is developing a project about the current occupant of the White House, but promises it will not be a hatchet job, Daily Variety reported on Sunday.
Stone is in talks with Josh Brolin, who is starring in "No Country For Old Men," to play the title role in "Bush," the trade paper said.
He is shopping the script to financiers and hopes to start production by April, with a release date in time for the election in November, or the inauguration of Bush's successor in January.
Stone told Daily Variety that he planned to make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush, focusing on such areas as his relationship with his father, President George H.W. Bush, his wild youth, and his conversion to Christianity.
"It will contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors," said Stone.
He said Brolin was better looking than Bush, "but has the same drive and charisma that Americans identify with Bush, who has some of that old-time movie-star swagger."
A White House spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment. Bush has acknowledged that he was a heavy drinker in his younger days, but has long been sober.
Stone, who has had his battles with drink and drugs, earned three Oscar nominations for his 1991 conspiracy film "JFK." In 1996, he also received a script nomination for "Nixon," which starred Anthony Hopkins. He won best directing Oscars for the Vietnam sagas "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July."
Other historical figures reinterpreted by Stone include dead rock star Jim Morrison in "The Doors," and Alexander the Great in "Alexander."
In 2002, he shot a flattering documentary about Cuban leader Fidel Castro for HBO, but the pay-cable network told him to balance it with more footage about political prisoners on the communist island.
Stone's efforts last year to film a documentary about another Bush nemesis, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also hit turbulence. His request for access was denied with an official reportedly dismissing the filmmaker as "part of the Great Satan."
(Reporting by Dean Goodman, editing by Philip Barbara)
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He won't have to do a hatchet job, just depicting reality will be bad enough, :laugh:
This reminds me, a friend at work who recently went to Vegas was unable to use her left-over American cash to pay for her lunch at the food court, nobody wanted to accept it (i'm in Canada). She said people used to kill for American money so she's convinced the end of the world is near ???
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: BelAir on January 21, 2008, 10:59:06 am ---I am one of those people who doesn't like 'historical' movies to be released in such closeness (at least temporally) to real events...
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Very good point. I agree and feel the same way.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: oilgun on January 21, 2008, 11:04:06 am ---He won't have to do a hatchet job, just depicting reality will be bad enough, :laugh:
This reminds me, a friend at work who recently went to Vegas was unable to use her left-over American cash to pay for her lunch at the food court, nobody wanted to accept it (i'm in Canada). She said people used to kill for American money so she's convinced the end of the world is near ???
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End of the world, huh? I guess I should just start going to the movies more often, then!
oilgun:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 21, 2008, 11:05:28 am ---End of the world, huh? I guess I should just start going to the movies more often, then!
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Let's go ee Cloverfield! :laugh:
According to the Mayan calendar we've got until 2012!
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