Movie News
Oliver Stone to Direct Bush Biopic
Posted by Jessica Rogers (jessica@filmschoolrejects.com) on January 21, 2008
Josh Brolin, newly indoctrinated onto the A-list thanks to his turn in No Country for Old Men is about to tackle a more difficult task. Butchering the word ‘nuclear’ in an over exaggerated Texas accent.
Brolin, who to me will always be Brand Walsh from The Goonies, is slated to portray George W. Bush in a biopic film that Oliver Stone is currently shopping around to studios. With a script written by Stanley Weiser filming hopes to begin in April, though a strike from the Screen Actors Guild would certainly put a damper on production.
Stone, in an interview with Variety, describes the picture he wants to paint of the 43rd president. “How did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world… It includes his belief that God personally chose him to be president of the United States, and his coming into his own with the stunning, preemptive attack on Iraq.”
According to Slashfilm.com the film was first mentioned when Oliver Stone was doing press for Alexander (remember that fiasco?) the director’s cut, but has flown under the radar with misleading titles like P.O.T.U.S and Misunderestimated (which makes the film sound more like a National Lampoon effort then an Oliver Stone flick.)
If everything stays on schedule, the film would be realized around the time of the next election or inauguration, which opens up a whole new world for voters. Maybe even posting election booths outside of theaters, which may help you get the elusive youth vote.
Talking Point: Is it too soon to make a movie about a man still in office?
Read more articles by Jessica Rogers
5 Comments
January 21st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
this is just the most awful idea ever.
January 21st, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Is this going to be a dark comedy?
January 21st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Way too soon. Remember how “well” the 2 Bush comedies did on Comedy Central? And how “well” movies about Iraq have done?
The rushed time table is stupid. Someone somewhere thinks “Its fresh in their minds, they want to see it!” Why go pay to see it when we’re still living it?
January 21st, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Rushed or not doesn’t matter to Stone. While Nixon got praised in critical circles, it was a box office bomb. And Alexander the Great has been dead for years.
The ony reason JFK did well wasn’t because it was about a president, but rather it was about the conspiracy… or maybe because it had a scene where Kevin Bacon talked about taking it up the butt…
January 21st, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Maybe Josh Brolin’s stepmother Streisand convinced him to do it. He’ll have to get an Oscar for acting that stupid. Yeah — nook-you-lar. Sheesh.
Stone doesn’t care about accuracy. I met one of the JFK film advisors who got nowhere with Stone when he said things like “That’s not the way it was. ” Stone told him “it’s not history, it’s entertainment.”