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

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

apparently it has NO relation to the Stone film.

holy christ how did this escape my attention

iMdb:

Sayed Badreya ... Saddam Hussein

Jason Ritter ... Jeb Bush (rumored)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1082098/ lolol

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-w29-2008jun29,0,934790.story

DRESSED IN a suffocating Rangers warmup jacket earlier on that scorching June day, Brolin kept running into an outfield wall, trying to make a heroic catch as part of the film's baseball-oriented fantasy framing device.

Stone worried the leap wasn't quite athletic enough and chose to add the baseball's falling into Brolin's mitt through visual effects -- allowing the "No Country for Old Men" star to throw himself into doing everything else.

!!!!!

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-06/40497430.jpg

i own a polo shirt in that color

I R EXCITED

I don't see how this can be anything except "Mommie Dearest" levels of utter fantasticness.

gonna be kind of awesome if it does come out before the GE as planned.

Brolin's head looks huge in that pic.

Brolin getting deep into character? (w/ help from Jeffrey Wright)

http://www.towleroad.com/2008/07/fictional-georg.html

According to a sober source who was in the Stray Cat, a few profanity-laced barbs about Stone, his politics and the reported anti-Bush tone of ''W'' led to harsh words from Brolin -- who is known for his own short fuse. Then a few pushes (it's unclear who started the pushing) degenerated into punches being thrown.

A ''W'' crew member reports Wright initially tried to play peacemaker, but that changed ''after a racial slur was yelled'' and the actor got ''into it as well.''

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/zwecker/1055471,CST-FTR-zp15.article

Trailer has leaked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJh7Md5KuWc

so is stone actually playing this as a dark comedy then, or is that just bs to get people to see another overwrought political drama?

dont answer

When was the last time "What a Wonderful World" was not used as ham-fisted wickedness/violence contrast in a movie?

This still looks awesome tho.

Attn: world; song is best without irony.

fucking cosign to infinity

oliver stone has a great sense of humor, abbott -_-

trailer needs more solsbury hill

Attn: world; song is best without irony.

Yus. I actually like a use of it at the end of the original Hitchhiker's Guide radio series, which while it follows a scene with ironic undertones acts more as a reflective, gentle balm.

the prob w/ using what a wonderful world w.out irony in a trailer is that it has to be totally contextless to be pure

this has probably always been the case

lol @ creepy capote guy playing rove

looks awesome

looks horrible

it looks awesome if you give stone way more credit than he deserves; ie believe he can actually play this off as a comedy rather than forcefully make some kind of political points that are only gonna dampen the response to it

it looks. . . horrible

it looks horrible

Fuck this movie, I want to see Brolin and Jeffrey Wright teaming up to kick redneck ass in a loooziana bar.

Excruciatingly horrible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lz5ae4Bls&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-uv9mIF2yk

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A bit David Lynch, a bit the Doors, probably even more Frank Zappa, Pee Wee Herman,The Who's Tommy,and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.Crazy and bound to be one of those 'You either love it or hate it' types of film events.

"'George W. Bush is a different souffle.... The film will be more fun [than Nixon]. Bush is dangerous, but he is also goofy, awkward and endearing. A lot of people still like him.'

"Presented with the ultimate question -- which man would he prefer be on a long car trip with -- Stone unhesitatingly chose Nixon over Bush. 'He was more intelligent. Bush has done outrageous things, and he has no guilt. He is a backslapper and a salesman. He's not very deep.''

"Stone, however, says both Nixon and W. ask the same question: 'Why do we keep going to war? Why do we keep creating enemies? Bush is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous manifestation. Vietnam was a nightmare. It's amazing that the same characters have returned and sold us another war.''

Stone said he "now believes that 1995 was an unfortunate time to have made Nixon, and believes that if the film had come out in 2006 "with all its parallels" to our current political predicament that it would have done much better. He says that it's interesting to see Nixon now. "We view him in a different context. He seems almost harmless compared to the current administration."

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/more_fun_than_n.php

nice posters.

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2008/08/palens_best_ad.php