Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks grace the cover of the most recent Entertainment Weekly. But you’d be forgiven if you looked at the issue and thought the First Couple was actually featured in it.

Indeed, the two actors starred in Oliver Stone’s movie about President George W. Bush, W, look eerily like their real-life counterparts.

The biopic will chronicle the life and presidency of the words President of the United States in this country’s history. Bush is reportedly portrayed in the film as a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with baseball, Saddam Hussein and the conflicted relationship with his dad.

Here’s the rest of the cast:

• Thandie Newton as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice;
• Ioan Gruffudd as Tony Blair;
• Rob Corddry as Ari Fleischer;
• James Cromwell as George Herbert Walker Bush;
• Ellen Burstyn as Barbara Bush;
• Jeffrey Wright as General Colin Powell.

Director Oliver Stone has finally cast the parents in W, his movie about George W. Bush’s life and presidency.

James Cromwell will be playing former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Ellen Burstyn will be playing his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush according to Variety.

As we already know, Josh Brolin will play George W and Elizabeth Banks has been cast as Laura.

The movie begins filming in April and may possibly be ready before George W. Bush leaves office in November.

Elizbeth Banks is now in negotiations for the part of Laura Bush in Oliver Stone’s W. Banks just recently finished filming Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, W will be the biography of President George W. Bush. Josh Brolin is signed up to play Bush himself.

Shooting for W will begin in April in Shreveport, Louisiana.

This ought to be the easiest role of Josh Brolin’s career.

All the No Country for Old Men star has to do is smile condescendingly a lot, make up nicknames for his poorly chosen government employees and set the bar as low as possible for all future presidents.

In other words: Brolin will be portraying President George W. Bush in an upcoming biopic from Oliver Stone, tentatively titled Bush.

Will Josh Brolin make a convincing President Bush?

The controversial director recently spoke to Variety about the project:

“It’s a behind-the-scenes approach, similar to Nixon, to give a sense of what it’s like to be in his skin,” Stone said. “But if Nixon was a symphony, this is more like a chamber piece, and not as dark in tone. People have turned my political ideas into a cliche, but that is superficial.

I’m a dramatist who is interested in people, and I have empathy for Bush as a human being, much the same as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison, Jim Garrison and Alexander the Great.”