It looks like Oliver Stone has found an actress for the role of Condoleezza Rice in Thandie Newton. We get word of this casting news thanks to the legendary caves of Yahoo:
Oliver Stone has found the actress to play Condoleezza Rice in “W,” his upcoming movie about President George W. Bush. Thandie Newton is in final negotiations to star as the National Security Advisor-turned-Secretary of State.
Meanwhile, Ioan Gruffudd is in final talks to play former British prime minister Tony Blair. “W,” which is expected to start shooting shortly, will look at Bush’s formative years and path to the president as well as his life inside the White House.
Oliver Stone’s “W” is putting together a pretty outstanding cast. James Brolin, Eliazabeth Banks, James Cromwell and now the mysterious Thandie Newton. This film should be ready ready for release about the same time W walks out of the White House. I think this is a good time to release the film, and will serve as a recap of the president’s career.
Oliver Stone is great with biopics and I am interested in seeing him tackle Bush. Love him, or hate him – he has been a polarizing figure in the world and everyone certainly has an opinion of him. Oliver Stone claims that he is going to try and keep an objective point of view about the man; I think this is impossible, but we will wait and see. I am certainly pumped to check this one out and look forward to its release.
Thandie will be brilliant. She was in an early Nicole Kidman movie & stole the show.
Yes, but can they convince Cheeta the Chimp to come out of retirement to do justice to the character of George W. Bush. Could be a career jump-start, like Brando in “The Godfather”.
What a wretched, wretched mistake has been the presidency of George. W. Bush. It is abominable that America’s Christless-Christians (what I like to to term the politically involved bible thumping crowd–those who should have their church’s tax exempt status revoked immediately) wrought on America by saddling her with this misguided and devious village idiot. And a man with speech so similar to the screwy linguistics of Dan Quayle, another Einstein associated with George Bush the First, King of America.
Well, we are all paying for it now. The economy has tanked, the world hates us, armed forces abused and spread too thin, America split into red states and blue states, details of illegal torture becoming known. It is crystal clear to the world that Condoleeza Rice has been speaking out around the world denying that America has used torture, while the records coming out now clearly show that she herself personally directed use of it. Don’t we have a nice jail cell for her (with perhaps a bit of waterboarding, just for laughs).
This administration has been flat-out disgusting and intolerable in its wanton lawbreaking. If we can’t impeach the crooked idiot because of a weak congress, let’s get a firing squad together.
J
Um, *Josh Brolin, not James.
Yea have to agree with Austin. I’m not interested…
I fucking hate bush….
What Kristina said. I was going to say something along the lines of “she’s too fucking hot to play that biyatch.” and then rethought that statement thinking of Charlize Theron.
Sorry Doug, but I’m with the rest of the crowd on this one. Even though more than half of them, if not all are probably American and don’t want to go through 2 hours(sorry, forgot this was a Stone movie…3-4 hours) of torture just having finished 7 1/2 years of it with that nutjob in office.
Well, I’m there then! I’ve never been impressed with any of her work though. She was fine in Crash, and The Pursuit of Happyness, but she has never wowed me with a performance.
If they can ugly up Charlize Theron, they can ugly up Thandie Newton.
Isn’t Thandie Newton a bit to beautiful to play Condoleezza? lol.
Oliver Stone objective?
No one wants to see a movie about Bush unless it’s a comedy.
Thandie Newton can’t act worth shit.
Dude, you didn’t like the Doors?
Oliver Stone good with biopics? The only one I’ve ever seen is The Doors, and that sucked. Huge.
I’ve also heard not a lot of good things about JFK. What other ones did he do?
This film will bomb, as Austin said.
That is a fair question Austin. I know I am very interested to see the film but you may be correct is assuming that most people will be too “Bushed out” at the end of his term to give a fuck.
I’d just like to go on record as saying this moving will tank. Does anyone (besides Doug, I suppose) _really_ want to see a movie about the current president?
And for those that do want to see it, do you think the public at large is as interested?
I’m gonna go ahead and put this one in the same column with the failed Iraq War movies, and wonder why Hollywood is content to eat the box office on bad ideas like this…