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#51 Post by colinr0380 »

Antoine Doinel wrote:Queen Latifah must've been busy.
That's terrible - Ioan Gruffud might be able to work in the role if we just have faith in him!

However now I've got visions of doing this story as a musical with Rice doing a gigantic showstopping number ("I'm pumping, pumping the oil of your love") on the deck of the oil tanker named after her!
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#52 Post by Jeff »

domino harvey wrote:I think it's time we started accepting that this will be the best movie of the year
The wacky casting gives me hope that it's going to be like the best episode of The Love Boat ever. I just hope Charo shows up.
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#53 Post by Luke M »

The casting for this movie is a joke. If Stone wanted to be taken seriously he should have casted no name actors and actresses.

That and it's too soon for this movie. It should really come out long after the administration has been retired when dirty discoveries can be unearthed.
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#54 Post by domino harvey »

The cast is exactly the only reason to see this movie
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#55 Post by Antoine Doinel »

Luke M wrote:That and it's too soon for this movie. It should really come out long after the administration has been retired when dirty discoveries can be unearthed.
The oddest thing about the Bush administration and family is that their dirty laundry is pretty much public knowledge (ie. cocaine, alcoholism, nepotism Laura Bush killing somebody etc). Unfortunately, it appears Stone is only going to address them in the most perfunctory "i-wanted-to-please-daddy" framework.
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#56 Post by thirtyframesasecond »

Jeff wrote:More casting news from The Hollywood Reporter:
Oliver Stone has found the actress to play Condoleezza Rice in his upcoming "W," with Thandie Newton in final negotiations to star as the National Security Advisor-turned-Secretary of State.

Meanwhile, Ioan Gruffudd is in final talks to play former British prime minister Tony Blair.
Surely Michael Sheen can reprise the role once more?
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#57 Post by domino harvey »

Reuters throws the script at four Bush biographers
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#58 Post by Antoine Doinel »

Oliver Stone's Bush Biopic Will Be the Comedy Hit of 2009
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#59 Post by Fletch F. Fletch »

Rob Corddry has been cast as White House press secretary Ari Fleischer.
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#60 Post by domino harvey »

oh my God, this is like an early Christmas present every time I check this thread
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#61 Post by tavernier »

Fletch F. Fletch wrote:Rob Corddry has been cast as White House press secretary Ari Fleischer.
I didn't know he was still in show business--get thee back to The Daily Show's "This Week in God"!
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#62 Post by Svevan »

He had a pretty convincing role in Semi-Pro.

Not that I saw that movie.
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#63 Post by domino harvey »

He was in one of the Ten's worst segments
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#64 Post by Fletch F. Fletch »

First Look at Stone's film:

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Here's the article.
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thirtyframesasecond wrote:Surely Michael Sheen can reprise the role once more?
I believe that's exactly what he will be doing, but in a different movie - Peter Morgan is reputedly scripting a follow-up to The Deal and The Queen that will focus on the Blair-Bush relationship in the early 2000s.

Interestingly, Blair was the undoubted villain of The Deal (whose brooding tragic hero was, erm, Gordon Brown), but portrayed much more sympathetically in The Queen - so it's anyone's guess what Morgan's take will be this time round.
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#66 Post by Antoine Doinel »

Fletch F. Fletch wrote:First Look at Stone's film:

Image

Here's the article.
Not matter how much makeup and boxy clothing she puts on, Elizabeth Banks is completely wrong for the role. All I keep picturing is the hot nymphomaniac from 40 Year Old Virgin.
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#67 Post by domino harvey »

Starring Elizabeth Banks as Judy Davis
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#68 Post by tavernier »

I thought it was Parker Posey.
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#69 Post by Fletch F. Fletch »

tavernier wrote:I thought it was Parker Posey.
Yeah, she DOES look a helluva lot like her! Spooky.
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#70 Post by tavernier »

It's that smirk.
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#71 Post by Mr Sausage »

That's uncanny.
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#72 Post by colinr0380 »

MichaelB wrote:Interestingly, Blair was the undoubted villain of The Deal (whose brooding tragic hero was, erm, Gordon Brown), but portrayed much more sympathetically in The Queen - so it's anyone's guess what Morgan's take will be this time round.
My money's on an "I have a dream"-style starry-eyed awakening to a cause following 9/11 ("I-am-the-people's....warmonger") in the next Morgan film to be followed after that by taking on tortured Christlike characteristics with GB (the person and the country) cast as Judas, which then paves the way for his religious conversion upon leaving office and his ironic sabbatical in the Holy Land trying to convert the non-believers with the winning catchphrase "peace or death (and maybe both)"! :wink:
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#73 Post by Murdoch »

Brolin, Banks and Corddry in a Bush biopic, this is my movie of the year. The excerpts of the script from the EW making-of just make it that much sweeter.
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#74 Post by domino harvey »

Brother in Arms In a 2003 sit-down with Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar, Bush explains that he has given up sweets since the beginning of the Iraq war. ''This is my personal sacrifice to show support for our troops,'' he says.
I really hope this actually happened
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#75 Post by Len »

I'm hitting refresh on this thread like a madman. So many juicy parts still up for casting... Libby, Powell, Cheney, Ashcroft, Gonzales...

I can't wait.
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