Maybe Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic, “W” will be a comedy! This might explain why Lionsgate is deciding to release the film on October 17 – just three weeks before the November 4 elections even though not an inch of film has been shot yet.
Filming begins May 12, which basically gives them five months to shoot, edit and finish the film in time for mid-October. Uhh, rush much? And casting for the remaining members of Bush’s collusion cabinet haven’t even been announced yet!
There’s basically three options here: 1) The most obvious one: the deadline is missed and the film has to come out in say, January ’09 around inaguration time. It seems impossible that they will hit this date. 2) It’s a full-blown comedy, it’s shot in long, masters and it’s easy to edit and piece together. Danny Elfman does the score. 3) It’s the serious drama we’re all frightened it might be and it’s Oliver Stone, so it’s just another one of the hackneyed jobs he’s done in the last decade or so. Man, we can’t wait for October.
Most telling? Lionsgate’s bread and butter is shit like the “Saw” series and other schlocky, pump-’em-out horror films made for the specific purpose of generating money. It’s not like there’s a lot of quality control or Oscar nominations over at the studio. Prepare for a glorious trainwreck.
yea, that’s a lot of confidence to get it on the calender…and so soon, when filming hasn’t begun.
i’m guessing this will be not be one of the great films of our times. how can it be??? big cast, big story…short shooting schedule, short production schedule.
is their room to fix errors? right good music? plan good sets, locations, etc?
I can’t legally release the name yet, but I can tell you that the composer has already been hired. He’s already done preliminary sketches, so it will be faster and easier to write once the edited scenes start to arrive.
It’s going to be a fast, fast ride.