Oliver Stone votes for 'Bush' film, Josh Brolin to play embattled president
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on January 20, 2008 - 9:05pm.
Just in from Variety:
Oliver Stone has set his sights on his next directing project, “Bush,” a film focusing on the life and presidency of George W. Bush, and attached Josh Brolin to play the title role.
The director has begun quietly shopping a script by his “Wall Street” co-writer Stanley Weiser.
Pic will be produced by Moritz Borman, who teamed with Stone on “World Trade Center” and “Alexander,” and Jon Kilik, a producer of “Alexander” as well as “Pinkville,” the pre-strike project about the Army’s investigation of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam that Stone expected to direct until United Artists pulled the plug late last year.
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I understand why Stone can’t go on record with his take on Bush, but what do you think he’d say if he did?
Look at 'Nixon'
I’ve often called Ollie Stone’s film about Richard M. Nixon the “Citizen Kane of Political Movies.” I get the feeling his statement on the prez will be similar, with an examination of the Bush dynasty in regard to GWB’s particular and peculiar worldview. Stoney had a similar privileged life (his father, famously, was a Wall Street broker) but actually experienced Vietnam as a soldier rather than trying to get out of it.
I doubt politically they are on the same page but if again you look at the Nixon movie, Stone had a point-of-view that was partially sympathetic, as if the flaws of the man were the part and parcel of his undoing.
If the project gets off the ground it will be fascinating.
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