Wow, feast your eyes on that, huh?
JustJared has a first look of this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly which has snagged the first photos of Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic”W.“
Yes, that’s Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks as George and Laura Bush? Are you feeling a delirious mix of horror, repulsion and giddy, train-wreck anticipation?
Yeah, we feel dizzy too. Don’t forget in the original script, which may or may not have changed by now, Dubya calls his oily advisor Karl Rove a “turd blossom” on page one.
Amazing, right? Don’t forget we gave our helpful suggestions as to who should play Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of the unannounced cast members to portray Bush’s cabal.
The EW story is up. In it, Stone denies that Robert Duvall turned down Cheney and refused to comment on reports that he’s talking to Paul Giamatti about the part.
A lot of people are wondering how fast and loose Stone will play with his Bush biopic, but he doesn’t really care. ”I’m tired of defending the accuracy of my movies,” he said. ”I’m past that now. JFK was a case to be proven, Nixon was a penetrating biography of a complex and dark man. But I’m not bound by those strictures anymore.”
Still, people have problems with the script. The author of “Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, Robert Draper is one of those people. ”My quarrel with the script isn’t that it departed from factual reality here and there, but that it just misses the guy,” he said. ”You come away with an even more hyperbolized caricature of Bush the Cowboy President than is already out there.”
Dude, it is Oliver Stone, afterall. We kinda can’t wait.
