By Kit Bowen and Brian Marder, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, October 03, 2008
W.
When: Oct. 17
Who: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Richard Dreyfuss, Thandie Newton; directed by Oliver Stone
What: Brolin plays President George W. Bush--with Banks as the First Lady and Dreyfuss as Vice President--in a biopic that probably won’t be playing at the White House until January 2009 at the earliest.
Brian Says: Phew, where to begin. How ‘bout the [insert male anatomical synonym for ‘guts’] on Oliver Stone? Of course, he’s always gravitated toward controversy and cinematic risk, but a biopic that by all indications doubles as a biting satire of the still-in-office president? Just…wow. The always-provocative director, who rushed the low-budget production of W. so it could be released in time for November’s election, hinted earlier this year that the movie would be a fair, objective look at the prez--which is almost as funny as the trailer.
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