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

He'll have to wait for McCain's presidency, if any movie theaters are still standing by 2013.

http://www.cinematical.com/2008/03/27/oliver-stone-casts-dubyas-parents/

CALLED IT!

"Ellen Burstyn as George Herbert Walker Bush"

JUICE BY GEORGE!

I just wish it was a musical.

I can see OS sticking in a dance number similar to the end of the 2nd Jackass flick.

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

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:58 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

lol Shakey i dunno

this will be one of my favorite scenes:

pilot: "just take your damn physical, georgie. we need you! I need you"

W: "I made a deal with the devil Johnny, and I keep my deals"

pilot: "but you're a good pilot! a pillar of the air national guard!"

W: "pillar of the air national guard by day, coke bars at night"

pilot: "if you walk away from this, you walk away from a white-hot future!"

W: "i got a white-hot rock of columbian cocaine in my future, then maybe some black-hot oil. For once I'm
gonna be the decider in my life okay?"

pilot: "you're the boss, georgie. you're our leader."

W: "shoot Johnny, let's go grab a beer. The KING of beers."

-- Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:59 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

omar, can you get to work on some of these?

i'll slip this under oliver's door

from Jeffrey Wells' Hollywood Elsewhere blog (someone emailed him a script):

I'll post a thought or two about Stanley Weiser's W, formerly known as Bush, on Monday. I couldn't get my hands on a recently revised draft, but if the film that Oliver Stone will begin shooting next month is at all similar to what's on the page, W won't be any kind of breathtaking, guns-blazing, political-zing movie. It's primarily a modest, brick-by-brick character study about who George W. Bush really is deep down.

that might actually be interesting if it were any good (ie if it agrees with me about who he really is).

lol at gr80

after reading robert draper's semi-authorized bio "dead certain," i've got to say that bush is kind of a fascinating, weird, complex character. i could see this movie being watchable, at least (it helps that the only stone film i even sort of like is nixon).

I almost bought that book today! how is it?

i enjoyed it a lot, partly because it's clearly not a hatchet job. draper is totally sympathetic to bush's motives, likes him as a person, never condescends to him -- which makes it all the more convincing when he explains why bush failed in such a huge way. draper's writing style is a bit new journalism-y (let's just say he uses a bit too many exclamation points) but i'd rate it above any other book on the guy i've read.

how did i miss this thread?

you had other priorities.

Soon after a disastrous news conference in April 2004, Bush retreats to the White House den to watch a Texas Rangers game in the final scene of the script.

Popping open a nonalcoholic beer, he lapses into his favorite dream: playing center field for the Rangers. Hearing the crack of the bat, he looks up for the ball but he can't find it in the sky.
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Years later, after Dubya drains a pint of Wild Turkey and runs over a pile of trash cans while driving home, his angry father tells him to call Alcoholics Anonymous, prompting Dubya to sarcastically deride his dad as "Mr. Perfect. Mr. War Hero. Mr F-- God Almighty."

i am first in line for this

this is gonna be like that made-for-tv movie where cybill shepherd plays martha stewart x10000000

Clearly that scene was written by someone that hates baseball.

"early screenplay," don't expect to see everything there... But we need an Ari Fleischer! Jeremy Piven or Jason Alexander?

In one scene, Bush practices his parachute landing in the White House pool but forgets to properly release the harness and sinks to the bottom. In another scene, Rumsfeld doodles a drawing of Condoleeza Rice standing on a piano with a globe spinning on her finger....

He interrupts a meeting with Prince Bandar, in which he informs the Saudi ambassador about plans to invade Iraq, so that he can catch the rest of the 2002 Miami Dolphins-Baltimore Ravens playoff game. Bush is later shown choking on a pretzel and passing out during the second quarter.

stoked

i am first in line for this

-- and what, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 4:12 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

me too haha

Larry David as Ari Fleischer!!!

-- David R., Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:02 PM

there's gonna be nothing in this about his helping run his daddy's campaigns and becoming a serious political operative, rite? didn't think so.

hey, let's list bald jews

Piven's a good pick

anyone think they might have a screening of this at the white house?

if they do i'm so going!!!

I'd like to see the scene where Hunter S. Thompson pulls him out of an empty bathtub and throws him out of his hotel room.

"The first time I noticed George W Bush was when he passed out in my bathtub at the Hyatt Regency in Houston. He was with a guy who had come to sell -- Look, I'm not going to put this next sentence on the record. Let's just say that 'a friend of mine' was buying cocaine. I have friends in Houston from all walks of life. Lawyers. Professional men. Bush was hanging around with this crowd of what you might call gilded coke dilettantes. I remember Bush as a kind of a butt-boy for the smart people. This was in the late 1970s, when he was in his drunken-fool period. He couldn't handle liquor. He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humour. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away."

god this is going to be so awesome

Piven would be great as Fleischer, good call

http://www-tc.pbs.org/newshour/extra/road_taken/images/fleischer_young.jpg?Log=0

"Let's play another prank on Dwight!"

Andy Samberg!

who should play fleischer's crazy "lbj did it" dad?

Tracer, do you have a link?

Hunter S. Thompson muses about Richard Nixon and 9/11

^^^love that article

I ain't playing that game, thanks.

via Cinematical:

Jeffrey Wright is reportedly in negotiations to play Colin Powell, Tommy Lee Jones is supposedly being sought for Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Duvall has been rumored to be the choice for Vice President Dick Cheney and now both Paul Giamatti and Toby Jones are being named as potentials for the part of Karl Rove (who Giamatti may have already channeled for his character in Shoot 'Em Up).

So PSH has said no to Rove, then.

I can't say I like any of those casting choices

I shouldn't have clicked on that link.

I didn't know Rummy & Cheney had been in both the Ford Administration and Lonesome Dove

my gf's dad is gonna be in this

/max

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/04/thompson_to_pla.html

The Bush administration is coming together -- and adding a key ally for good measure.

Oliver Stone has found the actress to play Condoleezza Rice in his upcoming "W," with Thandie Newton in final negotiations to star as the National Security Advisor-turned-Secretary of State.

Meanwhile, Ioan Gruffudd is in final talks to play former British prime minister Tony Blair.

yer too good for condi, thandie <3 <3 <3

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