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The Next Big Comedy: Ollie Stone's W

post #1 of 32
4/9/08 at 9:08pm
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post #2 of 32
4/9/08 at 9:18pm
Is the script getting positive buzz?
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post #3 of 32
4/9/08 at 9:19pm
I'm legitimately confused. Does the film have a comedic edge to it? Cause if it does, I'm interested. Then again, it's Stone, so who the fuck knows. Visually, I can't see Brolin playing Dubya, but I can hear it.
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post #4 of 32
4/9/08 at 9:21pm
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Originally Posted by GET AIDS NOW! View Post
Is the script getting positive buzz?
The draft evidently paints W basically as a frat boy. No surprise, but not so interesting, either.
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post #5 of 32
4/9/08 at 9:36pm
I just think it's great that a "Goonie" is playing W. If you were to tell me that a few years ago, I'd have punched you in dick. But I'll be seeing it.
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post #6 of 32
4/9/08 at 10:04pm
How can this be done as a comedy, George is the best comedian working today. No one can top him.
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post #7 of 32
4/9/08 at 10:09pm
I really want Bush to be played as totally clueless while this serious war drama is unfolding around him. That would be funny.
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post #8 of 32
4/9/08 at 10:22pm
It sounds like that's where there going with it, Mantis, even though that Frontline documentary from a couple of weeks ago showed that that was far from the case. This could be a disaster. I think Ollie is too afraid he'll die (or at least be too old) before he could make this 10 or 15 years down the line, which is when it should be made.
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post #9 of 32
4/10/08 at 1:43am
Maybe if Stone is contrasting some of the real world horrors the Bush administration is responsible for with some sort of jokey Caddyshack style misadventures, this could be some sort of insane piece of genius. I think train wreck is probably more likely, having seen Alexander, but if the man who made JFK and Nixon is still kicking inside there somewhere, this has potential. I think Oliver Stone is pretty much putting all in on this. If it works, he's back in a big way. If it just seems stupid, it will probably end his career.
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post #10 of 32
4/10/08 at 2:53am
This is so going to be this decades Primary Colors.....


...colour me fascinated tho.
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post #11 of 32
4/10/08 at 2:54am
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Maybe if Stone is contrasting some of the real world horrors the Bush administration is responsible for with some sort of jokey Caddyshack style misadventures, this could be some sort of insane piece of genius. I think train wreck is probably more likely, having seen Alexander, but if the man who made JFK and Nixon is still kicking inside there somewhere, this has potential. I think Oliver Stone is pretty much putting all in on this. If it works, he's back in a big way. If it just seems stupid, it will probably end his career.
I'm down either way.
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post #12 of 32
4/10/08 at 3:03am
this will be a hit due to intellectuals identifying with it on an ironic and satyric level, and many others simply identifying with DUBYA:Please Don't Let Me Fuck Up Any Worse.
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post #13 of 32
4/10/08 at 3:12am
The people who I knew that were reading it were utterly confused many pages in still trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
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post #14 of 32
4/10/08 at 3:33am
I'm getting the sense that, for this film, Stone is going back to what worked best for him in the past. As in the JFK days-- a hyperactive, distorted view of reality. At least, that's the only way I can justify this film's existence.
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post #15 of 32
4/10/08 at 3:45am
Imagine this done NBK-style.

The mind boggles
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post #16 of 32
4/10/08 at 4:15am
This movie is truly fascinating. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if I read that Stone is going to use an edited version of Orson Welles' voiceover from Tarnsformers: The Movie as the voice of god.
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post #17 of 32
4/10/08 at 4:41am
If the casting and first few pages of the script are any indication, this is going to be a mess.
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post #18 of 32
4/10/08 at 5:20am
...but what a mess...
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post #19 of 32
4/10/08 at 5:35am
Weird choices all around here indeed.
But from what I have gathered so far I thought that this movie would show Bush´s early years, i.e. his drinking time, turning to christ and fucking up a baseball team era. But having Fleischer and Rice in the Script clearly indicates that this goes well into this decade.
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post #20 of 32
4/10/08 at 12:09pm
This casting just gets weirder and weirder with every report.
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post #21 of 32
4/10/08 at 12:16pm
Unless it's a significant part that would require some actual acting chops, Rob Cordory doesn't sound like that strange a choice, precisely because of his comic persona.
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post #22 of 32
4/10/08 at 12:40pm
Artie Lange for Scott McClellan.
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post #23 of 32
4/10/08 at 12:53pm
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Imagine this done NBK-style.

The mind boggles
I suddenly really, really want the movie to be done in this style.

"That was the worst fuckin' head I've ever had in my life! Next time don't be so fuckin' eager!" - Bill Clinton
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post #24 of 32
4/10/08 at 12:55pm
So does that mean if Rodney Dangerfield were still alive, he would've been in this movie?
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post #25 of 32
4/10/08 at 1:35pm
Jesus only knows, but I hope he would've been...
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post #26 of 32
4/10/08 at 1:38pm
Good point, only one could wonder who he would've played?
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post #27 of 32
4/10/08 at 1:40pm
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Good point, only one could wonder who he would've played?
Cheney. The "no respect" thing works perfectly in his favor.
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post #28 of 32
4/10/08 at 1:41pm
Well played Jake, well played. And get Stephen Colbert to play Tony Snow. Hell have all the press secretaries be played by comedians.
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post #29 of 32
4/10/08 at 1:41pm
Thinking of Dangerfield as Cheney in the Oval Office is my laugh of the day.
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post #30 of 32
4/10/08 at 2:01pm
I don't know, maybe it's because I'm a British-er or maybe I just have a soft spot for Ollie, but this take strangely appeals. However, it sounds very much like a lot of TV satire of the Bush administration that has appeared over the last seven years writ large and not particularly insightful.

I was just wondering though, if a filmmaker wanted to go for something more credible as source material, have there been many "insider" accounts published of the White House inner circle since 2000? Or regarding W's past? Over here we had the UK ambassador to Washington's book that bloodied a few noses, but not much else.
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post #31 of 32
4/10/08 at 3:35pm
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Weird choices all around here indeed.
But from what I have gathered so far I thought that this movie would show Bush´s early years, i.e. his drinking time, turning to christ and fucking up a baseball team era. But having Fleischer and Rice in the Script clearly indicates that this goes well into this decade.
There's lotsa of flashbacks, it seems.
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post #32 of 32
4/10/08 at 11:28pm
As for Rob Corrdry, his presence is actually the least of the concerns for this thing. John Candy isn't just great in JFK, he's fuckin great.
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