Recount, the HBO film re-telling the tale of the 2000 presidential election campaign which resulted in that infamous Florida recount from Election Day through the Supreme Court’s ruling in favour of George W. Bush five weeks later will air on U.S. T.V. next month.

Amazingly the film was written by 33 year old actor Danny Strong. He played the goofy nerd character who became one of the lead villain’s in a season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but don’t let that put you off, the script is said to be brilliant.

So good in fact, that it topped the 2007 list of unproduced screenplays and has attracted the likes of Kevin Spacey (Al Gore’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain), John Hurt (Warren Christopher - the guy who supervised the recount), Laura Dern (Katherine Harris) Tom Wilkinson (James Baker) and Ed Begley Jr (David Boies).

The film is directed probably with much satire from Jay Roach (Austin Powers, Meet the Parents) and it will air on HBO on May 25th.

The teaser trailer is incredibly short and despite the presence of Spacey, I’m not so sure I would watch it just from this footage. Hopefully we will see something more in the near future.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE “TEASER” (very much so) TRAILER FOR RECOUNT

source - /film