“W”: Oliver Stone’s New Film On President George W. Bush

History will provide many interpretations of George W. Bush, his life & times. Here comes the cinematic version. Oliver Stone, a three-time Academy Award winning film director and screenwriter, is making a film on President George W. Bush (simply called W) and would be shot in Louisiana. Bush experts have already begun to dissect the screenplay.

W would come as a farewell gift to Mr Bush who could view it from the comfort of the White House before he leaves office next January. This is Stone’s third film about a US president, following Nixon and JFK.

“The director has been an outspoken critic of President Bush’s policy in Iraq. Mr Bush will be played by Josh Brolin (see photo above), who starred in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. Laura Bush is being played by Elizabeth Banks, who starred in The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” reports The Independent.

“The new film, W, portrays George Bush as a foul-mouthed, dried-out drunk with a baseball obsession and a difficult relationship with his father. The film will cover Mr Bush’s obsession with invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein – which Stone suggests is to avenge the Iraqi leader’s much ballyhooed assassination attempt on Bush Snr.

“It will also look at Mr Bush’s desperate hunt for WMDs in Iraq and his well known mangling of the English language. The script gives the impression that the White House is Mr Bush’s very own fraternity house where discussions about going to war sound like the staff are betting on a football game.”

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William Oliver Stone was born in New York City. He grew up wealthy and lived in townhouses in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. His father was a Jewish stockbroker and his mother a Roman Catholic of upper class French birth. He was raised an Episcopalian as a compromise but has since converted to Buddhism.

Stone’s famous quote: “I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.”

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