Comments on: Breaking: Oliver Stone to Direct George W. Bush Film Starring Josh Brolin

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:36:12 +0000

Like Bush or not, the film is going quite deep. Josh is playing the roll of George W. Bush very well with similar speech and mannerisms. I was on set today as a journalist in a 1978 debate in which Bush got nocked around by a competitor he lost to. I look forward to seeing the final cuts next year.

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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:40:13 +0000

[...] Stone announced he’s going to make a George W. Bush biopic. I didn’t believe it when I read it either, because Oliver Stone has been no loyal supporter to Bush’s regime. It’s not the [...]

By: itchcity

itchcity — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:36:01 +0000

I hope he includes PNAC and his daddy’s New World Order

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personal blather, special edition « empty rhetoric — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:48:59 +0000

[...] guess: no. Which means that the forthcoming biopic of George W. Bush will probably suck. Hard. Oliver Stone, who’s version of 9/11 (”World Trade [...]

By: Aleks

Aleks — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:13:54 +0000

Wasn’t Will Ferrell free to play GWB ?

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By: Hunter Stephenson

Hunter Stephenson — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:29:34 +0000

We haven’t had a feature film that analyzes how a modern U.S. president rises to power, so I’m interested to see this. Say what you will about Stone and his fever dreams that arise from the ether, but no other director makes presidential epics like Nixon and JFK.

As for box office prospects, we’ll see. There will be more interest in “Bush” than in Nixon. Can’t wait to see Stone depict Bush’s Skull and Bones years et al.

My pick = Clint Eastwood for Cheney.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:39:54 +0000

I am going with John Malkovich as Cheney.

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Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:18:06 +0000

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By: Hellen

Hellen — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:34:52 +0000

Do they expect this to make money? I could see this as a vanity project, with some wealthy backers putting up the money as a showcase to their political views and kind of a Hollywood status and pr symbol thing. But without them expecting any return on the money, just a flat out purchase, like a shinny diamond ring. But it is hard to see an actual company backing the project. Political films are dying at the boxoffice. Add to that with people already getting weary of the election race and we haven’t even started the months long general election phase yet. By the end of the year, even the most ardent politically aware will be completely burnt out on the subject. This film will struggle to make a dime at the boxoffice.

By: Prikker

Prikker — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:31:25 +0000

@ GregoryV January 20th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Obviously you haven’t seen the original Bush…
Its a drama.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:34:05 +0000

If Stone uses the same “fact-checking” that he did with JFK, look for a movie about how Bush and “the jewes” flew planes into the trade center with the help of the reptilian aliens.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:27:49 +0000

I think this is a poor decision. The lengthy biopic genre is pretty uninteresting and a lot of why they are successful is because they are usually made after some time has passed and it’s a big lavish period piece and allows people to either remember back when or rethink it, as well as showing something new to younger auidences who missed it the first time around. I don’t think people really want to see a Bush biopic in 2008. It would be far more interesting to see Lincoln or, if it had to be more recent, LBJ or something with the civil rights movement and Vietnam and the Great Society, etc. plus his rise through the Senate.

Also, I think Pinkville could have been a phenomenal movie. It’s a really compelling story and Stone could focus on something that wouldn’t necessarily be as superficially polarizing. I don’t think people are opposed to war movies lately. I just think they are opposed to BAD movies, especially BAD war movies or BAD movies in the social message genre. If something like The Deerhunter or Full Metal Jacket came out, I think audiences would respond really well to it. But no one wants to see a crappy lecture like Lions For Lambs and get hammered over the head with boring characters spewing rhetoric from the 24 news channels or political blogs.

And I think saying Brolin is on the verge of becoming A-List is a bit of a stretch though he had a great year with Grindhouse, American Gangster, and No Country For Old Men. But I just don’t think those movies put him up on the radar to become an A-Lister by any stretch. Maybe A-List in terms of respected directors wanting to work with him in the future, but not controlling and commanding movies and studios in the same way Brad Pitt and George Clooney do. I liked him in all of those movies and hope to see him get some great parts in the future.

By: Allynd Dudnikov

Allynd Dudnikov — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:06:33 +0000

I can’t see Josh Brolin as Bush.

By: Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:54:18 +0000

Oliver Stone needs to give these faux-fiction political films a rest. JFK was filled with tons of “debunked” information.

I hate Bush as much as the next guy, but this is seriously a waste of time. He should go back to making wacky films like Natural Born Killers.