Monday, April 7

• Thandie Newton to play Condoleezza in Stone's Bush flick

  Oliver Stone has begun to round out the cast of W, his take on the administration of Bush 43. Word from The Hollywood Reporter is that UK native Thandie Newton (Norbit, The Pursuit of Happyness) is in final talks to play Secretary of State and longtime Bush confidante Condoleezza Rice. She'll join an eclectic ensemble that includes Josh Brolin as George W. and Elizabeth Banks as wife Laura. Welshman Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four) is reportedly close to signing on for the role of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, while the loveably irascible Paul Giamatti is rumored to be in talks to play either Dick Cheney or Karl Rove.

  There is apparently no truth, however, to the rumor that twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been approached to play Bush's daughters Jenna and Barbara. Bummer.

  Source: The Hollywood Reporter

  
  

  Posted 04/07/2008 by Thomas

  Oliver Stone | Thandie Newton

Wednesday, March 26

• Banks a Bush

  According to The Hollywood Reporter, Elizabeth Banks has been cast as Laura Bush in Oliver Stone's biopic on the life of President George W. Bush entitled "W." The actress recently wrapped on the Kevin Smith comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

  Josh Brolin will play George W. The script was penned by Stone and Wall Street co-writer Stanley Weiser. Filming starts in late April in Shreveport, LA.

  
  

  Posted 03/26/2008 by Jeff

  Elizabeth Banks | Oliver Stone | Josh Brolin

Tuesday, January 22

• George W to get the Oliver Stone treatment

  Political power-movie mogul and conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Oliver Stone has set his sights on a new candidate for his lens - George W. Bush.

  Indeed, the man behind JFK, Alexander and Nixon is in the process of securing funding for Bush, a movie about George W., with Josh Brolin attached to play the lead. Stone's next project was originally supposed to be Pinkville, about the massacre at My Lai, but that project was halted due to the writers' strike. Bush, however, can go forward because the script was complete before the strike (Pinkville still needs revisions).

  Reports are that Stone is trying to get production in gear by the spring so that the movie can hit theaters in time for the November election.

  We are very intrigued to see how Stone paints the POTUS.

  Source: The Hollywood Reporter

  
  

  Posted 01/22/2008 by Heather

  Oliver Stone | Josh Brolin | W

Tuesday, August 28

• Oliver Stone lines up another Vietnam movie

  Director/war movie enthusiast/conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone is in the process of inking a deal with United Artists to direct Pinkville, a movie about an investigation into the 1968 massacre of 500 unwarmed women, children, and elderly villagers in My Lai, Vietnam. 

  Bruce Willis will star as the army general who supervised the investigation and Channing Tatum (War of the Worlds, Coach Carter) a helicopter pilot who tried to put an end to the killing.

  Source: Variety.

  
  
  

  Live Free or Die Hard trailer

  Bruce Willis was most recently seen in Live Free or Die Hard

  Posted 08/28/2007 by Heather

  Bruce Willis | Channing Tatum | Oliver Stone | Pinkville