Oliver Stone's Decider biopic "W," starring Josh Brolin

martin landau as wolfowitz

wait Landau's dead

Larry David as Cheney!!!!

yes

Martin Short as Nancy Pelosi

This will be terrible. Oliver Stone is such a hamfisted, pious director.

Cheney's the toughest to cast, and obv crucial. maybe Woody Harrelson padded in a bald wig.

This will be fantastic. Oliver Stone is such a hamfisted, pious director.

woody must factor in somewhere

Meatloaf as Roger Clemens

woody could be W.'s alcoholic devil past, resting on W.'s shoulder during crucial times and whispering sweet cocaine dreams in his ear

I hope he scouts for locations high on mushrooms for this one too (a la desert scenes in NBK).

Actually one of the worst things about it being so soon is that it will not include the drunken post-presidential downward spiral.

How much of the film will occur in DC vs various golf courses and vacation homes?

Laura's already cast, btw:

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20186389,00.html

Stone, who wrote the screenplay with his Wall Street co-writer Stanley Weiser, has been openly critical of Bush's invasion of Iraq, but he has said the biopic will present a fair and accurate portrait, focused on things like his relationship with his father, President George H.W. Bush, his wild younger days, and his conversion to Christianity. Stone was quoted in Variety last January as saying, ''People have turned my political ideas into a cliche, 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.'' Shooting on W is scheduled to start in late April.

ha, he DID direct Alexander didn't he? I completely erased that movie from memory.

Actually one of the worst things about it being so soon is that it will not include the drunken post-presidential downward spiral.

i see no reason to not include the occasional flash-forward

Cheney's the toughest to cast, and obv crucial. maybe Woody Harrelson padded in a bald wig

James Earl Jones would be perfect, if you can get past the skin-color thing. Darth Vader as himself.

Larry the Cable Guy as youthful W's coke dealer

(W shaves head, W flips out at gas station, W pregnant again, etc.)

egads that Kevin Smith movie.

Morgan Freeman as a magical Colin Powell

PS Hoffman ft Cheney.

not old enough

Fred Thompson

wait Landau's dead

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:41 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

rong!!

wishful thinking

hoffman for ROVE

YES

obv Kirsten Dunst & Michelle Williams as Jenna & Barbara

haha

who will play Daddy/41?

Dana Carvey?

betcha it's cromwell

haha xp

Pity they've already decided against Jon Stewart doing his Dubya impression as Dubya.

the late Fred Gwynne as John Kerry

No, not him, who played Lurch?

Ted Cassidy also dead

i see no reason to not include the occasional flash-forward

-- jhøshea, Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:48 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

how to spot the LOST fans on non-LOST threads

Morgan Freeman as a magical Colin Powell

Freeman actually will be Kofi Annan, mark my words.

weird, why did I think Landau was dead? he would be great for Wolfie

betcha it's cromwell

oh, right. hi, i can't read.

I don't see any problem with casting a corpse as John Kerry

obv Shakey, but Herman Munster had the lantern jaw

Hal Holbrook as Robert Byrd

i see no reason to not include the occasional flash-forward

-- jhøshea, Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:48 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

how to spot the LOST fans on non-LOST threads

-- nickalicious, Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:57 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

haha i was actually thinking this would be better as an endless multi-season tv show

Tom Noonan as John Kerry
Michael J. Fox as John Edwards

What about the movie Lurch?

Larry David as Ari Fleischer!!!

Mickey Rooney as John McCain

andy rooney as harry reid

Guy who played Jean-Do Bauby's dad in Diving Bell and the Butterfly as John McCain

many xps

2008 feels like yesterday. At first I thought silby meant what was the big deal about the movie. Bush years cast a long shadow. Feels like we're still in them. The movie is slight bc it was rushed: principal photography started in May 2008 (!!)

doesn't feel like yesterday to me - sometimes I remember that Dubya was President for two terms and it feels vaguely unreal

in part because even with Obama's massive flaws, it feels like we've made real strides on important things (gay marriage, abortion rights isn't purely on the defensive, people actually talk and care about police brutality/personal rights/privacy, etc.) vs the nadir of the Bush years that felt like the end of anything positive happening

also because he nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, how the fuck did that ever make it past more than a couple of interns spitballing names

Harriet Miers looks like Virginia Woolf compared to Kellyanne Conway and Donald Trump.

karl rove looks like he was drawn by garry treudeau or berkeley breathed

(in this film)

This is Stone's last good film. Cast is great, scope is tightly focused.

waiting for Brolin to play Rick Perry in a biopic

"thought at his best i think he only rises to the level of enjoyable batshit melodrama"

i swear i am not a chuck palahniuk fansite moderator when i say: natural born killers was something more than this. i have no idea if it was him at his best and it was certainly batshit, but that was some sort of cinematic something or other that was very memorable on the big screen.

i still feel like he doesn't get enough credit for the use of SOUND in that movie. and i never understood why more people didn't follow his lead. it was a true sensurround experience. i was totes impressed at the time.

kinda didn't need another 20+ year of IT'S THE MEDIA DO YOU SEE???? after that one. but what are ya gonna do?

(although part of me feels like he just saw wild at heart and said to himself: i can top that!)

nbk is definitely...an experience. it's like an american takashi miike movie.

also one of the few movies where i like the extended cut more. if only for the shot of tommy lee jones's head on a spike.

I like Stone in batshit epic mode, The Doors, JFK, NBK, Nixon. I've never seen W, but if it's like that, I'd definitely see it.

and as far as 90's heads in duffel bags go, i think U Turn is kinda underrated.

plus, the cast of U Turn is just ridiculous. where is the behind the scenes footage of jon voight, billy bob, nick nolte, and sean penn hangin' with j-lo?