Josh Brolin looks creepily like George Bush in Oliver Stone’s W.
Ok, so they have done an amazing job making Josh Brolin look like the current U.S. President George Bush but again I’m asking you - what does the actor see in this material for W. (note the dot that now accompanies the title - that is not just the end of sentence).
He’s too good to play parody like this and at the end of the day he has to make himself look stupid for two hours on screen and I can’t imagine director Oliver Stone for a second giving Bush any chance for emotional resonance. Bush is going to look inept, incapable and idiotic… it’s a thankless role for Brolin.
This image which has landed on the cover of Entertainment Weekly tells us two further things.
NUMBER 1: That ridiciulous smirk on the face of Bush will be a frequent look in the film, I can guarantee it.
NUMBER 2: This movie is going to be huge - one of the bigger hits of Stone’s career and will dominate the press for the week of it’s release.
Also on the cover is Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush. Co-starring with them are James Cromwell (as the other George Bush), Ellen Burstyn (as Barbara Bush senior), Thandie Newton (Condoleezza Rice), Ioan Grufford (Tony Blair), Rob Corddry (Ari Fleischer) and heavily rumored but I don’t remember hearing it confirmed… Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell.
Stone was aiming for a November release in time for the elections but it’s likely the film won’t make it in time.
source - just jared, /film
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Take a look to this sequence of Stone’s movies … JFK, Nixon and now W. So, this is the Oliver Stone’s trilogy about the involution and decadence of the institution called Presidency of the United States … Genius!!!
Comment by JAM | May 8, 2008
Man, I despise the title “W.” Nobody really refers to Bush that way. Couldn’t they have come up with something both more creative and more descriptive? Like “Despot” or “Big Brother” or “Pure Concentrated Evil”?
Comment by Ray | May 8, 2008
I’m looking forward to this film, but disagree that it will be ‘huge’. I’ve no doubt it will get significant press attention, but I can’t see general audiences rushing to see it. It will probably be a minor success if anything.
Comment by Paul | May 8, 2008
I will see it because I think it might be Stone back on form after mega flop Alexander and World Trade Centre which was disapointing. I agree with the cast apart from Michael Sheen really should be Tony Blair no one can play that little worm quite like Sheen.
Comment by Chris | May 8, 2008
Excellent cast, except in the case of Blair (it should be Michael Sheen!), and plenty of promise. The title W. is appropriate - it sounds folksy, informal and a bit simple, which is just what the USA has had in the hotseat for the past 8 years. Bush is ridiculous, so why not have a ridiculous title?
Comment by James Clayton | May 9, 2008