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'W' Gets Weirder as Lionsgate, Oliver Stone Agree to Outrageous Five-Month Turnaround
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 5:50 AM on May 10, 2008
Oliver Stone's drive to get his Bush biopic W in front of audiences before Election Day acquired new momentum on Thursday — if you can believe it. And we guess we have no choice but to wait and see if the director and Lionsgate, which yesterday picked up the film's North American distribution rights, can place their prismatic presidential quasi-drama on screens by their proposed Oct. 17 release date. Oct. 17! Stone hasn't even cast Dick Cheney yet — for a film that starts shooting Monday. Not a problem, insists the filmmaker, who's still spinning on the big picture:
"We don't really know much about Mr. Bush beyond the controlled images we've been allowed to see on TV. This movie's taking a bold stab at looking behind that curtain," Stone said in a statement. "I'm real pleased that Lionsgate has the independence necessary to bring this provocative story to an American audience."
Distribution deal was made by Tom Ortenberg, Lionsgate president of theatrical films. , who said, "With W, (Stone) again demonstrates his creative vitality and genius for speaking to our times."
Hence the W rumour mill once again whirring into action, deploying hints and whispers from the Louisiana set that Stone would probably "just play the son-of-a-bitch Cheney [himself]." He has alleged this could be his first comedy, after all, and it couldn't hurt to try on one of his films' quintessentially terrible hairpieces and take one for the team in the interest of time. Our democracy evidently depends on it.
- Lionsgate books Oliver Stone's 'W' [Variety]
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Lulamaybelle
Posted 6:36 AM 10/5/08
Is it me or does Josh Brolin look like John Larroquette on that cover?
Lulamaybelle
LoveHandles
Posted 6:51 AM 10/5/08
@LoveHandles: Provided he has enough blow.
LoveHandles
LoveHandles
Posted 6:50 AM 10/5/08
Stone has had some amazing turnaround time before. He shot all of JFK in under 90 days and edited it in half the time, so this is entirely feasible.
LoveHandles
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 7:14 AM 10/5/08
"This movie's taking a bold stab at looking behind that curtain..."
Oh, Ollie, just admit you are making shit up as you pull it out of your ass.
Little Mintz Sunshine
gwendemarco
Posted 7:51 AM 10/5/08
For eight years, the Left has been screaming that there is no there there but now we have enough for a feature length movie about what exactly?
gwendemarco
NoGrumpys
Posted 7:50 AM 10/5/08
@Lulamaybelle:
look like John Larroquette on that cover?
OMG! I thought it WAS! - Marky Post as Laura and I AM THERE
NoGrumpys
SanFranBetsu
Posted 7:34 AM 10/5/08
@LoveHandles: Bingo!
SanFranBetsu
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 8:36 AM 10/5/08
@gwendemarco: "...for what exactly?" Well, for a really boring movie, that's what.
Little Mintz Sunshine
metroville
Posted 8:23 AM 10/5/08
@gwendemarco: You have confusacated me with your strategerally jumbled post. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice...fool me twice...uh, y'know...I won't git fooled again!
metroville
LoveHandles
Posted 9:38 AM 10/5/08
@gwendemarco: ahhh, you seem to share the oratory skills of our president.
LoveHandles
Lulamaybelle
Posted 9:55 AM 10/5/08
@NoGrumpys: uh- I'm now conviced we MUST form a casting agency together now. The cast of Night Court will be pleased by how many jobs we will offer them.
Lulamaybelle
TryThisAtHome
Posted 11:38 AM 10/5/08
@Little Mintz Sunshine: Love it. Thanks for the laugh!
TryThisAtHome
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 1:31 PM 10/5/08
@LoveHandles: Except Gwen makes sense. And sharing oratory skills? That's just grotestical considering Gwen was typeifying her observatude.
Little Mintz Sunshine
gwendolyn
Posted 1:38 AM 13/5/08
I so want to watch this be released and then sink to the bottom of the ocean, box office-wise.
I have already seen Mr. Stone's take on the life of a lunatic repug president ('Nixon') and literally come close to vomiting when Anthony Hopkins grabbed Joan Allen and gave her the most disgusting, violent kiss in said movie.
So I will maintain a reasonable distance from this abortion because I am too old and dignified to go and scream 'Fuck you, you sociopathic piece of shit' at a movie screen for three hours...
gwendolyn