New Images: Oliver Stone's 'W.'
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More photos from Oliver Stone's upcoming George W. Bush satire, W., have arrived online via USA Today, and a good amount of them show what it looked like behind the scenes on one of this fall's most talked-about films. Above you get a pretty good look at Stone going over notes with Thandie Newton (Condoleeza Rice), Scott Glenn (Donald Rumsfeld), Bruce McGill (George Tenet), Josh Brolin (George W. Bush), Jeffrey Wright (Colin Powell) and Richard Dreyfuss (Dick Cheney). Also featured in this selection of images is James Cromwell as President George H.W. Bush.
Apparently the film opens with Bush Jr. standing in the middle of a baseball field, listening to the roar of the crowd as an announcer calls forth the 43rd president of the United States. However, the camera pans back to reveal no one there but Bush. What's up with what? Stone notes, "We all have retreat fantasies. He did have the express desire to be baseball commissioner, and I think some people, historically, would say if he had become baseball commissioner, it would have saved us a lot of problems."
As far as the target audience for W. goes, Stone adds, "I'm not interested in that radical 15% that hate Bush or the 15 to 20% who love Bush. That's not our audience. Those people probably won't come. I'm interested in that 60% in the American middle who at least have a little more open mind."
Will you be seeing Oliver Stone's W. when it hits theaters on October 17? Check out two new photos of Bush and Bush Jr. below, then head to USA Today for the rest.
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(Page 1)2. In other news, apparently only 15% of Americans hate Bush. I'm not sure if that number's accurate, seems a bit low in my experience.
I don't hate the man. But I'm seriously looking forward to putting someone new in office.
Posted at 10:56AM on Sep 24th 2008 by Kaeli
3. Oh, and also... I have no interest in the film, really. Not because of my own political beliefs. 8 years was enough, I'd rather not willingly pay for a cinematic recap.
Posted at 10:58AM on Sep 24th 2008 by Kaeli
4. Not sure how this is the "most talked about" fall film... By far and away, Harry Potter's move from fall to summer garnered much, much, much more talk.
Are you guys trying to create some sort of ... *enthusiasm* ... for this movie? One that screams boring, filled with pretense, and an "I'm Oliver Stone, and I hate George Bush" infomercial?
This movie is basically akin to letting Michael Bay Direct a movie about... say... Pearl Harbor, who subsequently kills thousands of people on-screen while making sure the cute little doggy is the sole survivor of the Arizona sinking.
-Pie
5. I'm not a Stone fan and am undecided about seeing the film, but I do not assume that it will be a hatchet job. Stone did make a nuanced and sympathetic profile of Nixon.
Posted at 1:19PM on Sep 24th 2008 by Doug Abramson
6. Oliver Stone? Talking about open minds?! That's just staggering coming from a man who's known to be quite loose with some "facts" that he puts into his movies.
I'm in that 60%, but I know enough about Oliver Stone to know that I won't be seeing this movie.
7. I can't stand Bush, but I still find it really tacky to do a movie when the guy is still in office. It would have been better in a few years when we all have more perspective on his presidency (and have been able to see even more long term effects). Not that I would have seen it then either. As Kaeli said... 8 years was enough, I think most of us are ready to forget him for a while.
Posted at 1:22PM on Sep 24th 2008 by Liz
8. While he *might* make a nuanced portrait, the odds are against us. And I quote...
"I have been called a lot of things, but never a great satan. I wish the Iranian people well, and only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours."
I really don't think Stone said things like that about Nixon!
-Pie
9. Oliver Stone certainly has a lot of material to work with here, but I have a feeling that the film could come off as heavy-handed. And, if it really is a satire, I'm not sure it will be as effective as a straight biopic would be at convincing the "60% in the American middle" of things they should already know.
Posted at 11:35AM on Sep 26th 2008 by AdamM
10. Here's a new extended trailer I found for Oliver Stone's biopic W. that opens in theaters Oct. 17th. Josh Brolin looks like he's gonna be perfect as Dubbya, and the supporting cast is amazing too! You can find the extended trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weELpc3pYMs
Posted at 8:43PM on Oct 2nd 2008 by adamz12
11. This movie looks as good as when james brolin played Clark Gable. What an embarrassment. I think W is going to look pretty good if we have a few years of the little socialist. Can't keep blaming W then.
Posted at 7:30PM on Oct 15th 2008 by pamc
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1. I guess I'm "radical" because I hate the man, but I still want to see this. So chew on that, Oliver.
Posted at 10:45AM on Sep 24th 2008 by NP