Kevin Bacon contines his legacy of film domination by joining Ron Howard in the Upcoming film FrostNixon. We get the news and synopsis from the hallowed halls of The Hollywood Reporter:
Kevin Bacon has joined the cast of “Frost/Nixon,” Working Title Films and Universal Pictures’ adaptation of the hit Peter Morgan play. Ron Howard is directing, while Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer.The play is based on a series of televised interviews that David Frost secured with former President Nixon in 1977. The final interview ended with Nixon tacitly admitting his guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal. Bacon, who is set to play Nixon’s chief of staff Jack Brennan, joins Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones and Matthew Macfadyen.
Kevin Bacon is a man that likes to spit on you during sex. He is also a fantastic actor with an incredible body of work and a magnificent ability to play a wide range of charachters. He was fantastic in Sleepers where he played the dirtbag pedophile that gets swift justice delivered unto him in a diner.
The story of Nixon is one I know little about. From what I understand he is the second worst president the USA has had in the past 100 years. To make a movie about the infamous David Frost interview is just a great idea. Adaptions from the stage do not always work, but with this subject matter I think a quality adaptation will be no problem at all. Ron Howard + Kevin Bacon is the mathematics of success.
“From what I understand he is the second worst president the USA has had in the past 100 years.”
Your understanding here is a bit misguided.
Are you by chance going by the daft list of “historians” who rank the presidents here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_United_States_Presidents ?
You should note the ambivelence in the article about ranking Nixon so low.
“Some presidents present special problems because their foreign policy success or failure stands in contradiction to their domestic policy failure or success. Political scientist Walter Dean Burnham noted the ‘dichotomous or schizoid profiles.’ Historian Alan Brinkley said: ‘There are presidents who could be considered both failures and great or near great (for example, Nixon)’. James MacGregor Burns observed of Nixon, ‘How can one evaluate such an idiosyncratic president, so brilliant and so morally lacking?'”
I’ll bet if you were to re-survey the so-called “experts” here, most would list Jimmy Carter as worse than Nixon at this point. History is quite fluid in this regard. But that won’t stop the rest of the commenters from posting the usual predictible responses about Bush, Clinton etc.