Would you pay $12 to watch a biopic on the super-conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh? James Sclafani hopes so.
Deadline reports that the writer/producer is currently shopping a film around town based on the book, “The Rush Limbaugh Story: Talent on Loan from God,” an unauthorized biography written by Paul Colford. The film, which is described as being similar in feel to Oliver Stone’s “W,” “will include contradictions that have gone against his radio diatribes, from the dubious 4-F draft status during Vietnam (unearthed in Colford’s book) to a get-tough stance against drug abusers that was contradicted by the revelation that he himself was addicted to prescription painkillers and got them illegally.”
Sclafani describes his project as “…’Citizen Kane’ meets ‘Private Parts’, where you have a man who always had trouble relating to people in the outside world, but does it effortlessly in the booth.” That comparison sounds horrifying, and frankly, we can’t stand to listen to two minutes of Limbaugh’s blather. The prospect of sitting through two hours about the life of one of the most unpleasant men to ever hit radio doesn’t fill us with excitement.
Limbaugh himself isn’t involved in the project. Yet. He was surprisingly hands off during the writing of Colford’s the book and Sclafani does plan to approach Limbaugh at some point in the future. We can’t imagine the film will be made without his blessing (cue sound of a dumptruck of money arriving at house). He’s enough of an egomaniac that our hopes of him saying no and suing the production seems unlikely.
There are no details yet on who will play Limbaugh (Paul Giamatti perhaps?) but we feel sorry for whoever has to embody that character for the length of a film shoot.
