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

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

http://images.celebscentral.net/images/celebrities/thandienewton/20.jpg

HAHA, ALL-HOTTED-UP CAST

Thandie Newton is way too young to play Condi. Couldn't he have gotten someone like Alfre Woodard?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i1155cb8195120add876286155ef704a6

http://gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2008/04/Picture%2029-1.jpg

Real men of genius.

hahahaha

Rob Corddry as Ari! OK, this shit is getting weird now,

http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/09/rob-corddry-is-ari-fleischer-in-stones-w/

wait is this supposed to be a comedy or not

no matter what its supposed to be it is going to be LAFFS

I mean, the Nixon movie had some chuckles, but how straight can the Fleischer scenes be with that casting? It'll be big-budget Daily Show.

Maybe Stone'll have Corrdry do something dramatic to show that He Is Serious -- shoot a mugger, abort a baby, pay for Maalox w/ cash instead of a Visa Check Card, etc.

Fleischer press conferences were already comedy routines anyway

ya - seems fitting.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20198476,00.html

That make-up's kinda scary.

Tough Talker Bush, 26, drunk-drives his car onto the lawn of his parents' D.C. home, and challenges his dad to a fight, ''Let's go mano a mano! Right here. Right now!'' Then, in 2003, when France fails to back the U.S. on its invasion of Iraq, Bush says of French president Jacques Chirac, ''I'd like to stuff a plate of freedom fries down that slick piece of s---'s throat.''

Practical Joker During a prep meeting on Iraq, Bush playfully locks Colin Powell out of the room. He then steals a mint from Condoleezza Rice and tells Paul Wolfowitz to trim his ear hair.

Scott Glenn as Rumsfeld; Cheney still unannounced.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a95876/bourne-actor-cast-as-donald-rumsfeld.html

This sounds even better than the scene in Nixon with Bob Hoskins Frenching the Hispanofag from "My So-Called Life."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ic8cebb424120f3a576fdfb72633580f7

Richard Dreyfuss heads to the White House
To play Dick Cheney in Oliver Stone's upcoming "W"

By Steven Zeitchik

May 22, 2008, 08:44 AM
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CANNES -- Josh Brolin has a vice president.

Richard Dreyfuss could soon make the trip to Oliver Stone's White House, entering final negotiations to play Dick Cheney in the provcateur director's upcoming "W."

The role is the last major position in the Bush administration to be filled; the West Wing is already occupied by the likes of Brolin (President Bush) Thandie Newton (Condoleezza Rice) and Elizabeth Banks (Laura Bush).

The 60-year-old Dreyfuss has never played a U.S. leader, but has had a few related roles. He starred as an opposition senator to Michael Douglas' commander in chief in 1995's "The American President," as Alexander Haig in a television movie about Ronald Reagan and played the president of a banana republic in the 1980s comedy "Moon Over Parador."

The QED-produced "W," which has been granted a waiver by SAG, begins shooting this month in Shreveport, La. QED has been selling territorial rights at Cannes' Marche du Film, with the idea that the movie will be released in October, before Americans elect a new president. A DVD release will follow in January timed to Bush leaving office.

I am starting to really look forward to this.

Perfect casting:

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/1507787.jpg

Seriously. What I actually hope - I mean in my heart of absolute hearts - is that Stone plays this one so close to a documentary that it will look like a National Geographic program.

But Thandie as Condie? Hmmm.

The 60-year-old Dreyfuss has never played a U.S. leader

Not true, he played the prez in Clooney's TV remake of Fail-Safe.

Don't see him as a plausible Cheney tho.

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8189/1507787fe2.jpg

http://media.tbo.com/photos/trib/2004/oct/1007drey.jpghttp://media.tbo.com/photos/trib/2004/oct/1007chen.jpg

'The 60-year-old Dreyfuss has never played a U.S. leader

Not true, he played the prez in Clooney's TV remake of Fail-Safe.'

OT but remember when this guy was gonna do a live version of network on cbs? that woulda been must see tv

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3619/richarddreyfussvp6.jpg http://www.fp-es.org/images/artwork_8th_19_3.jpg

Cheney not Jewish enuf

i hope the part where he blasts a dude in the face makes it in

dreyfuss is perfect and I don't even particularly like him as an actor. very excited for this

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/06/04/teaser-poster-for-oliver-stones-w/

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/wteaserposter.jpg

saw that!

was Dreyfuss officially signed?

anyone got the recent W quote about how econ stimulus would help "the machine-making place"?

"And so the fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine. And when somebody makes a machine, it means there's jobs at the machine-making place." --George W. Bush, Mesa, Arizona, May 27, 2008

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm
and there's an audio gallery!

what a fucking retarded poster