It’s the stuff Hollywood scrambles to find: a story about a powerful figure who seemingly crosses the line. Just what Hollywood loves. He refuses to acknowledge he crossed it, faces a personal and career abyss but vows to fight. Just what Hollywood loves. And he uses lots of four-letter words. Just what Hollywood loves. Speculation is now running rampant: if Hollywood turned the saga of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his Senate Seat For Sale scandal into a flick, who would play the Gov and other key parts?
The Washington Post has helped get the casting call speculation ball rolling and now the film blog Spout blog has offered this post complete with pictures. Spout’s MUST READ has MUST VIEW photo casting suggestions — the biggie being the suggestion that Sam Rockwell play the Governor with the comedy club vocabulary (but there are many others…).
But then Hollywood will have to come up with a title, too. To ensure Blagojevich has big B.O. (moviespeak for box office), it might help to have a “high concept” name that either has the name of a famous movie or is a switch on one or of a TV show. For instance:
*The Sound Of Money
*Political Titanic
*Hair Spray 2
*The Biggest Political Loser
*The Touchable
*Political Tombstone
*All About Blag
*As Corrupt As It Gets
*Democratic Apocalypse Now
*City Slicker
*One Million Easy Pieces
*Sudden Impact 2
*Stupidman
*The Career Terminator
*Law and Order: Criminal Intent (Illinois)
*Political Grease
OTHERS WHO HAVE IDEAS ON A BIOPIC:
–Intriguing ideas on who can play Rod via Staticblog
–There’s also THIS..
–And THIS…
And then here’s Conan O’Brien’s take:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.