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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFunny or Die Made a Trump Biopic, Starring Johnny Depp
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/movies/trump-movie-funny-or-die-johnny-depp.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0LOS ANGELES Johnny Depp has played a loopy pirate, a mad hatter and a demon barber. But will he be a convincing Donald J. Trump?
The humor website Funny or Die on Wednesday began streaming a 50-minute comedy that finds Mr. Depp portraying the businessman turned politician, full-blown comb-over and all. Kept a secret for months no small task in Hollywood Funny or Die Presents Donald Trumps The Art of the Deal: The Movie was released to coincide with Mr. Trumps victory on Tuesday in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary.
It was a crazy, completely nuts idea that somehow we pulled off, said Adam McKay, a co-founder of Funny or Die, which also counts Will Ferrell and Judd Apatow as principal partners and produces exclusive material that often features well-known stars. Mr. McKay, the director of The Big Short, which is a contender for best picture at the coming Academy Awards, added that the sites newest skewering of Mr. Trump will with any luck annoy the presidential hopeful.
The Art of the Deal, which takes its title from Mr. Trumps 1987 best-selling business advice book, may establish a new Hollywood genre: the fake television movie of the week. As a narrator (the director Ron Howard, playing himself) tells viewers at its start, the movie was made in the 1980s and had Mr. Trump as its writer-producer-director-star. But a football game went into overtime, and so an angry Mr. Trump ordered the prime-time special pulled and forever tucked away in a vault.
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blogslut
(38,002 posts)That was upsetting. Donald Trump really is like a bad 80's industrial film.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)I hafta see this.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Funny stuff.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)I laughed out loud at the final shot.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Virtual hair effects by Industrial Light and Magic
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Initech
(100,080 posts)I will definitely watch this!
jdadd
(1,314 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)floppyboo
(2,461 posts)Can't wait to hear the Donald's reaction! Brave boys, Ronny and Johnny!
mdbl
(4,973 posts)I can't tell the difference from actual Donald Trump video. He's such a circus.
They_Live
(3,236 posts)as Merv Griffin...
ExPat2Mex
(19 posts)Depp is, as usual, unusually wonderful.
On my blog in Sonora, Mexico, I write about Trump and his Mexican connection, El Chapo, both of whom I have followed since I was a 20s something in Washington DC in the early 70s, .
I hope you can take a look. Might be worth it.
http://livinginsonora.blogspot.com/2015/10/don-pablo-el-chapo-trump-and-tv-never.html
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)'A Rump Named Trump Buys A Lot of Junk?'
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