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

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

George W. Bush is a different souffle....

waht

Oh how nice if he could be flattened just by stomping around the room while he's in the oven.

There's something wrong with my sentence.

George W. Bush is a different souffle....

waht

yeah i know he forgot the accent on the "é"

bastard

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/10/wmovie200810

oh man look at the puss on Dreyfuss

isn't Step 1 of playing Cheney "put on puss"?

Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell, Toby Jones as Karl Rove, Dennis Boutsikaris as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney, Josh Brolin as George W. Bush, Thandie Newton as Condoleezza Rice, Rob Corddry as Ari Fleischer, Bruce McGill as George Tenet, and Scott Glenn as Donald Rumsfeld

many lols

this is gonna be a gas

Fierman: Wait, are you saying this movie is a comedy?

Stone: Well, it has to be done with an ebullience and a certain fun, because the guy is goofy. He's a goofball! And I think he endeared himself to people because he couldn't get anything right. Kubrick was an idol of mine. I grew up on Strangelove and movies like Network, and they made a big impact on me. So yeah, W. is a satire.

Fierman: What do you think about what's happening at the box office right now?

Stone: It's all about the muscularization of film. Comics changed everything. It's movies on steroids. I mean, look at Transformers. That made a fortune, but it's incomprehensible! Maybe I'm too old for it.

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_7465

ok this is def going to be the bestest movie ever

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/22/oliver-stones-w-movie-an_n_128195.html

opens on my birthday! this was meant to be.

The TV spot ending w/ slow-mo pretzel choke is encouraging.

+ use of "once in a lifetime"

actually, the ads never, ever fail to crack me up. i'm so excited to see this dumb movie. the one where he glares at cheney and says "i don't even understand why you'd bring this up when i'm eating lunch" is a good point actually.

The more ads I see for this movie, the more excited I get about it.

the MPAA rating is PG-13, so less filthy verbiage than I was hoping for.

Can't wait to read nutjob reviews of this.

the MPAA rating is PG-13, so less filthy verbiage than I was hoping for.

so no "go fuck yourself" lines eh? :(

having just lived through 8 years of W I'm not sure I want to pay for another 2 hours

opens on my birthday! this was meant to be.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:04 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That's what I said about Alexander

still, totally psyched about seeing this

Says nothing about the movie, but whoever edited the ads and set them to "Once in a Lifetime" is genius.

my "birthday party" has now been transformed into a bunch of people going to see this

I think you are allowed 2 or 3 "fucks" in a PG-13.