Oliver Stone’s ‘Bush.’

Oliver Stone’s ‘Bush.’

Daily Variety writes that film director Oliver Stone “has set his sights on his next directing project, ‘Bush,’ a film focusing on the life and presidency of George W. Bush.” He has chosen actor Josh Brolin to play the leading part. Stone told Variety that he wants this movie to be a deep introspective:

Here, I’m the referee, and I want a fair, true portrait of the man. How did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world? It’s like Frank Capra territory on one hand, but I’ll also cover the demons in his private life, his bouts with his dad and his conversion to Christianity, which explains a lot of where he is coming from. It includes his belief that God personally chose him to be president of the United States, and his coming into his own with the stunning, preemptive attack on Iraq. It will contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors.


http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117979349.html?categoryid=10&cs=1
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/21/oliver-stones-bush/

This is box office death on a silver platter.

Everyone predicted that Moore's anti-war documentary would crap out at the box office too.

J

Oliver Stone's movies have a long shelf life and a somewhat historical value to them. Let's never forget and show the next generation what happened when Washington, D.C. and America let an incompetent mad man steal two elections.

Everytime I hear some one refer to history when talking about Oliver Stone they instantly lose credibility.

hideous thing that ever walked the earth and all of his secrets have long been buried.

He's just a chip off the old block, vile enough, though.

An actor acting like an actor that acts real. Phew:)


I hear he is living at the zoo in a monkey cage for a month to really study his character.

"thank you Mr Chim-Chim, we'll let you know."

"Next !! ...Mister Bonzo?"

:bounce:

but bananas. that's a whole 'nother story. : - )))))

monkey like banana.

I remember seeing 'Nixon' in a theater in South Florida, surrounded by Nixon lovers. I laughed my ass off at the level of outrage that film generated in those people. Especially amusing were the disgusted *harumphs* when Hoover was featured poolside in a smock (or was it a mu-mu/kimono?)

:-)

I don't go to theaters much, but your account was sweet!

Most rethugs hated it because they thought it would be a liberal hatchet job, many liberals hated it because he made Nixon sympathetic.

Personally the only way I'd touch a Bush movie is as a comedy with Will Ferrell. His presidency has been so tragic a disaster there's no way to straight up tell it without depressing the hell out of the audience.

Now wouldn't that make a happy ending? :rofl:

The other day the History Channel all but took apart Stone's JFK...but hell, this guy sure did a job on Nixon. While not on my "must see" list, if it shows up some late night while I'm scanning around, what the hell, I paid for it anyway, I'd probably watch until I got sick.

Brolin:



Bush:

The time for this movie would have been four years ago. JMO

BROLIN' OUT James, George (Photo: Getty Images)





But, Oliver Stone didn't ask me---




Bruce Dern



Hands down.

Josh Brolin has turned down the part, however Mr. Peepers the cigar smoking chimp has been tapped for the lead.

Not that Stone isn't up to the job or anything, but honestly, a biopic on this sonofabitch, right after we've had to endure 8 years of him? I think he should have waitied a few years until Bush fatigue had worn off. Come January next year, I just want to put this nightmare 8 years behind me, and I really do not find him to be a fascinating, compelling person in any way and am not interested in his early days growing up with Battle-ax Babs.

Stone has really been off his game in recent years. That WTC movie was a total turd, and now POS Bush? Stop. Please.

It was a grab to build a Fundie base. That said, STONE is one of my all-time greats.

to do an expose of Shrub's life before he took office. The last scene could be where he decides to be a candidate. The rest as they say is history - and one that most of us don't want to re-live.