Pre-Review: Oliver Stone’s film “W” about George W. (pronounced dub-ya)

May 9, 2008 by IM Buzzter
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That's right folks, George W. Bush has managed to get Oliver Stone to do a film completely about him! Now is that because he's so good as President or so bad. You decide. Oliver Stone isn't known for doing flattering work on much of anything, so you guess.

The big question: 'Where is George Bush's bedroom?''

Oliver Stone is an extremely controversial filmmaker - in fact, that is a great understatement. Well, he is now flinging open French doors inside an enormous brick mansion in Shreveport, La., inspecting locations for his new film about the 43rd President of the United States. ''This one is too small,'' he says. ''This one looks like George Tenet's bedroom. Where did we decide to put Bush's bedroom? It's around here somewhere, isn't it?''

Shooting for this film begins in less than two weeks. Called just "W" (or dub-ya, as it's spelled out in the initial sketches for the poster), they are racing to recreate the First Family's residence. There will be a 32,000-square-foot soundstage that the production is renting across town where the Oval Office and Cabinet Room sets will be when they arrive from Los Angeles.

The screenplay is still being worked on and has currently gone through two rewrites since an earlier draft was leaked to the press last month. That's right, it was not an April Fool's joke. Stone is actually making this film.

Stone has said of the film: ''It's evolving". Most of the cast has been assembled and outfitted with prosthetic noses and hairpieces — Josh Brolin will play President George W. Bush and Elizabeth Banks will star as Laura Bush. They are still looking for someone to play Vice President Dick Cheney.

For the first time, Stone is turning his cameras not just on a living president but on one who'll still be knocking around the White House when the movie premieres later this year. It is rumored that Stone could end up releasing the film as early as October 2008, at the height of a presidential campaign in which one of the major issues will undoubtedly be the legacy of the guy on the screen.

We will add this to the things that make you go "Hmmmm" and list this "loosely" under the category "A Real World", because we all know anything that involves Hollywood or The White House is just barely existing in the real world.