Each year a poll of 150 development executives and high-level assistants is compiled called the Black List. The resulting list contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywood, which will not be released in theaters during that calendar year. The top three entries of the 2005 list where Things We Lost in the Fire, Juno, and Lars and the Real Girl. So it’s definitely a great list to be on.
The top film on the 2007 Black list was Recount, a behind-the-scenes look at the 2000 presidential election and the scandal that resulted. Written by 33-year old actor turned screenwriter Danny Strong, and directed by Jay Roach (Meet The Parents, Austin Powers), the completed film will premiere on Sunday May 25th at 9:00pm on HBO, and we have the teaser trailer. Kevin Spacey stars as Ron Klain, former Vice President Al Gore’s Chief of Staff, John Hurt as Warren Christopher, who supervised the contested Florida recount, Laura Dern as Katherine Harris, former Secretary of State for the State of Florida, Tom Wilkinson as James Baker and Denis Leary as Michael Whouley.
Spoiler warning: Bush wins the Presidency. Ouch.
Discuss: What do you think about the Recount teaser trailer?
via: Hollywood Elsewhere
April 14th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Eh, looks alright.
Though I am looking forward to The Wire creators new series, “Generation Kill”.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
yawn…i’m sure it has potential, but as for that trailer, a big YAWN.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I’ve heard nothing but incredible things about the script, I hope the film is half as good.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Look at for Mike Whaley in this! He’s prettttttty awesome.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
not enough about the story, focused too much on getting all those ‘impressive’ names in. still, i’d like to see it but as soon as i read about it i wanted to; the trailer isn’t adding much to that.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Pretty bland trailer. Music was pseudo porno-ish sounding too. Something tells me this will skew far, far to the left of center, portraying the Dem’s as a noble wronged party and the GOP as bumbling evil doers hell-bent on destroying the electoral process.
Just a guess.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
So its not enough that we’re remaking more and more recent movies and sitcoms, now we’re expected to sit through a remake of the news from less than four years ago.
Thumb says, “Fuuuuuuuuuuuck That!”
April 15th, 2008 at 4:07 am
That was about as much as would want to see of that film since I already know how it ends.
April 15th, 2008 at 7:10 am
I assume this movie is going to say that Bush stole the election, so half the country will love this movie, and the other half won’t bother to see it.
But they might surprise us, and say Gore tried to steal the election but was prevented from doing so, in which case half the country will love this movie, and the other half won’t bother to see it.
So either way, do we really need this movie?
April 15th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Was that trailer done by the Shadowplay Studio, who did the opening titles for Thank You For Smoking and Juno?
April 15th, 2008 at 7:26 am
tom wilkinson and kevin spacey are two of the best…so it has to be pretty good.
April 15th, 2008 at 7:53 am
I don’t really need to be reminded on how this one moment in time changed the lives of millions of people for the worse. We should just exile Florida forever.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Oh yay.. more liberal propaganda crap saying Bush “stole” the election. Skip.
Also.. why would I want to sit through this movie? Um.. it was just a few years ago. I watched it on the news.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Really Frank? You think he didn’t? That seems willfully ignorant these days.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:51 am
this was partly shot in tallahassee florida…the most boring town on earth ….so it cant be that good.
also …no laura dern in the trailer… Lame….
April 15th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Pretty worthless trailer. Bush won the election, even after the recounts. Hopefully the movie finally points out that every time the GOP wins an election the dems complain about the voting process and every time the dems win an election, the GOP accepts it and moves on. Democrats = the party of perpetually whining babies.
…maybe I’ll TiVo it.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Bush did not steal the 2000 election, the Supreme Court hijacked it for him.
If Gore had been ahead in the vote count and Bush behind, there’s not a doubt in my mind that the same Supreme Court would have voted 9 to 0 to count the vote and I would have supported the decision. Bush v. Gore will go down in history as one of the worst decisions the Supreme Court ever made, along with the Dred Scott case.”
April 29th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Someone mentioned Mike Whaley above in a post, i actually went to school with in SC, he was an amazing actor. I am glad that he’s finally getting a shot to prove his worth.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:18 pm
I’m really looking forward to the Recount movie!