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George W. Bush Gets Oliver Stone'd, More Movie News

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Provided he can secure financing, Oliver Stone hopes to begin production on Bush — a look at our current president — as early as the spring in order to release the film by the fall election, says the Reporter. Josh Brolin is attached to play Dubya, and Stanley Weiser (Wall Street, Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story) penned the script.... Tim Meadows and Gillian Vigman (Sons & Daughters) have joined the cast of They Came from Upstairs, the alien-invasion comedy starring Ashley Tisdale.... Penélope Cruz will voice Juarez, a guinea pig, in G-Force, a live-action/CG pic about a group of animal commandos who work for a government agency.

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Posted by TV Guide News
Jan 21, 2008 1:34 PM
And here I was hoping for "Clinton - the Red Dress Years".....
Posted by tazzy
Jan 21, 2008 1:35 PM
Josh Brolin as Bush? That has to be one of the most mis-matched casting choices of recent memory!
Posted by jlenski
Jan 21, 2008 3:46 PM
tazzy, don't you mean the "Blue Dress Years"?

And I agree about Josh Brolin as Bush. But you never know, he could be very believable as him.
Posted by lizzybelle
Jan 21, 2008 4:32 PM
I guess no A, B or C list actor wanted to touch this considering Oliver Stone is going with a D-List actor you'd expect to turn up on some stupid reality show. The perfect actor would be the Bush impersonator Leno uses. However, considering it's Oliver Stone the movie probably won't have much basis in reality anyway like the "documentaries" that fat guy makes, so the choice of actors doesn't matter. He could have chosen Pauly Shore or Carrot Top and it wouldn't make a difference.
Posted by wildbill
Jan 21, 2008 4:41 PM
One other thought, who's going to play the hanging chad?
Posted by wildbill
Jan 21, 2008 4:42 PM
Hmmmm... seems I remember Josh Brolin getting a lot of good notices for No Country for Old Men and American Gangster. I don't think he's D-list.
Posted by achyfakey
Jan 21, 2008 7:28 PM
Bush impersonator Leno uses....I thought about that casting wildbill, but if they used him it would be more of a comedy than a drama.
Posted by lizzybelle
Jan 21, 2008 8:20 PM
I guess some folks consider anyone who isn't plastered across the pages of the tabloids along with every aspect of their personal life to be D list. ?<img border=">

I guess starring in two films that may be nominated for Best Picture and possibly snaring a Supporting Actor nomination isn't enough.

I bet he'll be a whole lot better than his father James was playing Ronald Reagan.
Posted by Buffy Freak
Jan 21, 2008 8:38 PM
Buffy Freak-Josh has got to be better than his dad in just about anything except that made for TV movie he was in about the guy who got locked in a department store overnight. But even then he was out-acted by a pack of Dobermans.

But, seriously...I've decided to take a wait and see attitude toward most movie casting. I was wrong about Michael Keaton as Batman (actually it was his casting as Bruce Wayne that I thought was unrealistic-not handsome enough) and Joaquin Phoenix really shut my mouth about his being cast as Johnny Cash. I didn't think that would work at all and I was completely wrong about that one.
Posted by DaMess
Jan 22, 2008 2:43 AM
I guess starring in two films that may be nominated for Best Picture and possibly snaring a Supporting Actor nomination isn't enough.

Since when does skill have much to do with A-list, D-List, whatever list? I thought it was a reference to name recognition and viewer drawing power. I don't think Josh is that far up that list. Maybe I exaggerated a bit with D-list but he's nowhere near A-list, which was the point of my comment.
Posted by wildbill
Jan 22, 2008 12:05 PM
No, you said he was a D-List actor we'd expect to turn up on a reality show. And now, as demonstrated, you can see the error you've made.
Posted by achyfakey
Jan 22, 2008 3:16 PM
I have to agree with wildbill. Josh Brolin is one of a couple of D-list progeny who seem to have outstripped their famous parent or parents in talent. Cole (son of Wings)Hauser, who did a fine job in the probably not-to-return K-ville is another. Of course Cole has a successful screenwriter grandfather on both his mother and father's sides (one an Oscar winner) and Jack Warner for a great-granddad so I guess the talent may just have skipped a generation.
Posted by DaMess
Jan 23, 2008 2:45 AM
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