Yes, W. is the story of the least popular President in American history.
So, why would Oliver Stone make a movie about him? Like you really need to ask.
In the end, though, this biopic isn't nearly as controversial as one would assume. Read our W. review in full right now and see what else we have to say about the film.
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According to this new poster for W., the 43rd President of the United States has lived a misunderestimated life.
Do you agree? Does that even make sense?
For Josh Brolin, in his portrayal of George W. Bush for the movie W, we assume it's all about the incompetence.
Co-star Elizabeth Banks, who plays Laura Bush in the Oliver Stone movie, told the Los Angeles Times that playing the current First Lady was "all about the hair."
"Hair speaks volumes about every politician's wife," Banks said. "And I think you'll be impressed with my version of Laura Bush's very Republican hair. I did meet Laura once, in 2003, long before I knew I'd be playing her."
Asked about the movie's portrayal of the Bush family, the actress replied:
"The film really presents both sides. People who like George Bush will find many things in the movie to like and people who don't like George Bush will have their opinion validated as well. It's a fairly fair portrayal."
Following her gig as the First Lady, Banks will focus on making a porno with Seth Rogen. Sounds about right to us.
As the campaigns for John McCain and Barack Obama heat up, Oliver Stone wants to make sure we don't forget about the current, disgraceful President of the United States.
With that in mind, the controversial director is presenting W, an inside look at George W. Bush.
Here's a new poster for the film, which features Josh Brolin in the title role:
You're a Bush! Act like one!
If that quote from the upcoming Oliver Stone movie, W, doesn't get you excited to watch the film, perhaps its trailer will. Check it out now:
Considering the rarity of a movie about a sitting U.S. President, it's no wonder that W is under fire from critics.
But director Oliver Stone says the movie isn't meant to be an overly intense look at the worst leader the free world has ever seen.
"W isn't an overly serious movie, but it is a serious subject. It's a Shakespearean story," Stone told The Los Angeles Times. "I see it as the strange unfolding of American democracy as I have lived it."
Is this Josh Brolin or George W. Bush?
Josh Brolin, who portrays George W. Bush, said his preconceived notion of what the movie would be changed after he read the screenplay by Stone.
"It was very different than what I thought it would be, which was a far-left hammering of the president," the actor said. "Republicans can look at [W] and say, 'This is why I like this guy.' ... It's not a political movie. It's a biography. People will remember that this guy is human, when we are always [outside of the movie] dehumanizing him, calling him an idiot, a puppet, a failed president.
We want to know in the movie: How does a guy grow up and become the person that he did?"
A question millions of Americans have been asking for years.
We've uncovered a hilarious - and depressing - teaser poster for Oliver Stone's upcoming George W. Bush biopic, W.
Click on the picture below for a larger version. Prepare to be amused, and frightened by the quotes with in...
Never one to shy away from controversy, Oliver Stone's next movie is generating a wealth of it. So, what motivated the director to direct a movie about George W. Bush?
"He is one of the great characters of this time and I think he has had enormous impact on the world and our generation as well as future generations," Stone said of Bush in an interview with Screen Daily. "He achieved what his father did not by getting re-elected. ... What he does with that is the question."
According to Stone, W - which stars Josh Brolin as Bush - would be more like the blackly comic Dr. Strangelove than it would his somber biopic of Nixon. The director did say that the president's religion would be tackled in a serious manner, however.
"We must on the surface take his conversion seriously. It is the centrepiece of his change. At the age of 40, he was a drinker and he changed quite radically over a period of four years, so something happened to him," Stone said.
"Whether he became the same person on the other side of the coin is an interesting issue and I examine that too. Some of the characteristics, however, never disappeared such as the temperament, the anger and the impatience."
W is scheduled to open October 17.
Josh Brolin finally has a vice president.
The movie W has nabbed Richard Dreyfuss to play Dick Cheney. The role is the last major position in the Bush administration to be filled, as the West Wing is already occupied by the likes of Brolin (President Bush) Thandie Newton (Condoleezza Rice) and Elizabeth Banks (Laura Bush).
The 60-year-old Dreyfuss starred as an opposition senator to Michael Douglas' commander in chief in 1995's "The American President," his other major experience on film within the political world.
