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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117979833.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

 

In a move that makes the Oliver Stone-directed "Bush" a reality, QED has closed a deal to fully finance a drama that will begin production in April.

 

Josh Brolin is finalizing a deal to play President Bush.

 

The deal -- made a week after Stone and producing partner Moritz Borman unveiled the top-secret script to buyers (Daily Variety, Jan. 21) -- means "Bush" could be in theaters by November's presidential elections, and certainly before Bush leaves the White House in January.

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QED, the production/financing company started three years ago by Bill Block, Paul Hanson and Elliot Ferwerda, will sell offshore territories next week at the European Film Market in Berlin. QED Intl.'s Kim Fox will spearhead that effort. A domestic distribution deal is expected to be made shortly after that fest.

 

While Bush is a controversial figure abroad, QED's Block said that didn't mean the film won't find receptive audiences offshore.

 

"Whether you love Bush or you hate him, he has changed the world forever," Block told Daily Variety. "He's a subject of fascination to the rest of the world, no matter how you feel about him, and Oliver has put together a very complete and complex characterization of his life. Josh Brolin has the range and depth to reveal this character's amazing journey to the ultimate power seat."

 

QED will finance a budget north of $25 million in partnership with Aramid, the U.K.-based hedge fund. Pic gives QED two plum titles, as the company is also financing "Peter Jackson's District 9," the sci-fi film that director Neill Blomkamp and producer Peter Jackson hatched after Universal and Fox unplugged their plan to team on "Halo." That also starts production in the spring, and Sony will distribute.

 

Brolin, who is coming off "No Country for Old Men" and "American Gangster," will start work on "Bush" after he wraps the Gus Van Sant-directed "Milk." Stone is already casting other roles that include Laura Bush and former President George H.W. Bush. Stone and producers Borman and Jon Kilik are locking locations, using much of the crew that was ready to work for Stone on "Pinkville" until United Artists derailed the film.

 

Stone, who worked on the script with his "Wall Street" co-writer Stanley Weiser before the writers strike and returned to it after "Pinkville" fell apart, told Daily Variety last week he is aiming for a fair portrait of Bush, similar to "Nixon." The film will cover Bush's transformation from a substance-abusing underachiever through a conversion to Christianity. Stone said it will deal with Bush's belief that God wanted him to be president, and the story leads up to the invasion of Iraq.

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Review sur AICN

 

I walked into Oliver Stone’s W with a lot of Bush baggage. It was something I’ve been dying to see, but having now seen it, I can say with absolute certainty that I didn’t know what Oliver Stone was up to.

 

W is not DR STRANGELOVE. This isn’t a biting satire ridiculing a man. This isn’t a film about Liberal Revenge – with a mind set to smear the man as a hick Chauncey Gardner. W. isn’t about the Bush Presidency, at its soul, the film is about why a man that started off life wanting to be anything but his father, not only followed his footsteps into the White House, but got the second term his father didn’t. It’s a film about the fire that drives the Bush engine. [...]

 

Josh Brolin will be nominated for Best Actor this year for this part. It is a phenomenal performance that goes beyond mere imitation, to living in the role. There’s a mindset that imitates the look in Bush’s eyes, not just the dim glimmer of dumbness, but when Bush turns on the charm and his eyes light up, that hang dog look, that amused look – and then an entire range of emotion that we haven’t seen from W. Brolin doesn’t play him as a corny TV imitation, but as a living breathing man with motivations, flaws and dynamics. His character shows the President’s gifts – alongside his faults. [...]

 

Next are the actors that form the people around the President. Every last single one of them is fucking great! I’m serious. [...]

 

The film is fantastic. The whole thing. Oliver Stone did what I feel many of us “liberals” could never really do – and that’s make a very even handed biopic on George W Bush, one that shows his merits & his shortcomings. A tragic story of a would be hero, a would be great man. In that respect, W reminds me of ED WOOD - a biopic of a famous mediocre talent that probably never should have held a camera, like that, here you see how Bush became the man he has inflicted upon all of us, these last 8 years.

 

Oliver Stone has made a truly great film.

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A partir du moment où Karl Zero propose grosso-modo la même chose mais avec des images d'archives, que Stone et Zero font leur truc avec un point de vue qui leur est propre mais -à première vue- assez similaire, ça ne me parait pas si outrancier de faire la comparaison.

 

Je parle pas de la forme et de la mise en scène, évidément. Il est clair que sur ce point, Stone n'a de leçon à recevoir de personne.

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J'ai pas vu le truc de Zero sur Bush, mais j'ai vu celui sur Chirac, et je crois que c le meme procédé. C'est un montage d'images d'archives prises sur des décennies, images auxquelles on fait dire tout et son contraire, avec par dessus une fausse voix off d'un imitateur censé parodier le personnage ciblé (ct Gustin pr Chirac, je sais qu'il y en a un pr Bush aussi), et ça defonce des portes ouvertes pdt 1h30 avec un montage malhonnete grace auquel on pourrait faire passer n'importe quel homme politique de la planète soit pr un dieu, soit pr un con. Je pense pas que O.Stone ait "exactement" la même demarche même si les deux films sont contre Bush.

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Mouais, plutot très déçu par ce "W"... Longuet, tout sauf captivant, on apprend pas gd chose... Alors oui, c bien joué, et qques scènes intimistes fonctionnent bien, mais putain, tt ce qui touche à la politique proprement dit, les reunions de bureau, tout ça, OH MY GOD qu'est-ce qu'on se fait chier ! Je savais pas quoi attendre, au final j'ai juste RIEN eu ou presque... Vraiment dispensable et vain.

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Hé bé putain.

 

C'est plat, c'est académique, c'est tellement impersonnel et anodin que ça pourrait être du Ron Howard.

 

On apprend rien mais quand je dis rien c'est rien, suffit de lire 3 articles de presse et de parcourir le bouquin de Woodward pour avoir le film, en gros.

 

Alors ouais ok Bush a envahi l'Irak pour faire son Oedipe, Colin Powell était le gentil de l'histoire et Dick Chesney le méchant, c'est vraiment très intéressant mais on lit n'importe quel blog de gauche on apprend la même chose en 3 paragraphes. Le symbolisme est grossier, les ficelles sont énauuurmes (sérieux les plans sur les bouteilles de Jack Daniels pour montrer qu'il est alcoolo, la musique drama pour le speech de fin, la symbolique du baseball), on dirait une très mauvaise série télé.

 

En plus le film est propre, gentil, on dirait que Stone s'est auto-censuré pour destiner son film au public républicain et pas trop le choquer, j'en sais rien (j'ai compté deux "fuck" en tout et pour tout, oui c'est con mais c'est pas anodin je pense), du coup c'est aussi vitriolé qu'une attaque de Bisounours son truc.

 

C'est dommage y'avait le potentiel pour faire un film explosif, pas un truc ultra orienté genre Michael Moore, mais autre chose que ça quoi.

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