Giamatti to Join Oliver Stone’s Bush Film as Karl Rove?

Posted by Nathan Deen (nathan@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 31, 2008

Few directors are more political in their movies than Oliver Stone, but has he crossed the line by putting into production a film about the Bush Administration? Well, the one thing that does impress us is the stellar cast he’s putting together.

Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men) and Elizabeth Banks (Defintely, Maybe) are already slated to play W and Laura Bush. James Cromwell (The Queen) and Ellen Burstyn (The Dead Girl) have also been cast as George Sr. and Barbara Bush. Now Stone may be in the works to cast another high profile actor.

According to New York Magazine, Stone is trying to get the terrific Paul Giamatti, who had a down year in 2007 with Fred Claus and Shoot Em’ Up, to join the cast. It is not yet clear as to whom Giamatti will play, although New York Magazine is speculating that it will be former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove.

So this brings up a big question. Is Stone trying to cast actors as Bush’s past and present high level administration members? If that is the case, who do you think should play Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfield, Colin Powell (I personally like James Earl Jones for that one), etc.? Maybe he should look toward the cast of Saturday Night Live.

News Courtesy of New York Magazine

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