I have the script for Oliver Stone's "W"

May 9, 2008 | Hildy

[Hildy]

I have a PDF of the script for this despicable movie. I've been told it's the actual, final script. I haven't even read it yet, just glanced through it and I wanted to throw up. If anyone's interested, freepmail me an email address and I'll send it to you. We could really plaster this over the internet and ruin everything for him, couldn't we....hmmm....Anyone have any other ideas????

By the way, did you all know this money is being financed by a Shanghai based group? So...to recap...a hit piece on a sitting President to be released before said President will leave office is being financed by Communist China during an election year. AND NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Send it to Rush, Michelle, Ann, post it on Topix, blogs, etc...

[Hildy]

It’s dreadful...

[skr]

Have sent my e-mail address. Thank you for the alert. I’m not surprised about the Chinese funding. Stone is so obsessed with conspiracies that he’s decided to participate in one.

[Red Steel]

The movie comes out in October.

[ThePythonicCow]

Draft 2, dated October 15, 2007, of this script can be found at http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/photos/stylus/22342-w_script.pdf.

An AOL news posting Hollywood Too Conservative for Stone by Brandon Barker, dated May 8th 2008 10:14AM, states:

... we now know that Stone has had a hard time getting big-time actors to sign-on to play the Bush Administration's heavy hitters (Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld).

''You'd be amazed how many male stars of a certain age in Hollywood are Republicans,'' says Bill Block, CEO of QED, one of the producers for 'W'. ''I'm not going to name names, but a lot of them just didn't want to have anything to do with it.''

[ThePythonicCow]

Stone is trying to get the film out in October, before the elections. Since he hasn't finished casting it yet, it's not clear he can make this date.

[Hildy]

Just read where Scott Glen will play Rumsfeld.

[Hildy]

That’s the one I had...I thought it was a big deal...the Hollywood Reporter actually puts it out there for all to see? Isn’t that a bit odd?

[ThePythonicCow]

Entertainment Weekly, also known as EW, has a cover story on this upcoming movie, at First Look: 'W,' Oliver Stone's Bush Biopic.

[txflake]

Scott Glen rocks

He always struck me as an Eastwood type. We'll see.

[Hildy]

See post 6...apparently you can just download the script from there...why would they allow that???? We can still send it around to the blogs and have some fun with it, right?

[ThePythonicCow]

There is a more detailed story going into some of the negatives of this upcoming movie at The Star (South Africa): Will Stone's Bush sink?.

Some paragraphs from this story:

Reactions to the script were mixed. Specific scenes are largely based in fact but they noted the screenplay contains inaccurate and over-the-top caricatures of Bush and his inner circle.

"It leaves you with the impression that the White House is run as a fraternity house with no reverence for hierarchy, the office itself or for the implications of policy," said Robert Draper, author of Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush.

"Everybody calling everybody else nicknames and chatting about whether to go to war as if they were chatting about how to bet on a football game misses the mark of how many White Houses, including this one, are run."

Jacob Weisberg, author of The Bush Tragedy, was sceptical about Stone's claim that he wants to make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush. "His saying he is going to be fair to Bush is like Donald Trump saying he's going to be modest."

[ThePythonicCow]

See post 6...apparently you can just download the script from there

Er eh ... yeah ... I know.

I posted post 6.

[A CA Guy]

At what point does Bush get blamed in the movie for global warming...on Mars?

[Hildy]

LOL! Sorry..and thank you! That’s going to save me alot of emails...but I’m a bit disappointed I didn’t have the scoop! I had fantasies of Oliver Stone’s Jack booted thugs coming to get my computer!!!!!

[ThePythonicCow]

On looking at that draft 2 that I posted a link to above, I see that the link I posted only has four pages of the script. It's just a sample.

[Hildy]

Have you read that script? It’s just plain awful.

[ThePythonicCow]

Do you have the entire script, or just the four pages at the link I posted?

If you have the entire script, then you'll still likely be getting requests to send it via email.

[Hildy]

NO! I have the whole script!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is this supposed to be a comedy?! WTF?! I’ve used better scripts as TP!

[ThePythonicCow]

Wonkette: The DC Gossip comes a few more details:

Is Oliver Stone's Bush Movie a Terrible Hoax?

A version of the screenplay for Oliver Stone's new movie about George W. Bush — the working title is "W." — has been floating around the news recently, and most people are curious as to whether it's a joke. Tough call. On one hand, it is campy and politically over-the-top; on the other, it is post-1992 Oliver Stone film, like Alexander or Nixon. Slate read the script and picked out some choice moments, and one of them involves America's president describing himself as a rabbit in a "carrot patch." But who doesn't?

• Pages 14-16: Before Laura is in the picture, W. dates Judy, "a blonde, curvaceous Texas cowgirl." Judy needs a lot of reassurance: "How many times do I have to tell you, you're my gal. I'm as happy as a rabbit in a carrot patch with you," insists W. at a Texas bar.
• Page 45: W. treats his advisers like DKE pledges. He calls Wolfowitz "Wolfmeister" and at one point tells him to "think about trimmin' those ear hairs."
• Page 3: Cheney suggests that Iraq may just be the beginning. "Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran," says the VP. Pleased with this witticism, W. clinks his bottle of nonalcoholic beer against the VP's coffee mug.
• Page 71: W. isn't too happy when his father wins the presidency: "I'll never get out of Poppy's shadow," he tells Laura. "They'll all keep sayin' what's the boy ever done ... I mean who ever remembers the son of a President?" Laura's rejoinder is heavy with dramatic irony: "You forgot John Quincy Adams."
• Page 25: When press secretary Ari Fleischer reports that Helen Thomas is asking around "about secret plans for military actions in Iraq" and wondering "what makes Saddam any different from other dictators," W. flips out: "Did you tell her I don't like motherfuckers who gas their own people?! Did you tell her I don't like assholes who try to kill my father?! [...] Did you tell her I'm going to kick his SORRY MOTHERFUCKING ASS ALL OVER THE MIDEAST?!"

[Hildy]

Isn’t it incredibly bad?

[ThePythonicCow]

Have you read that script?

No ... haven't. Don't plan on reading it, either.

It was good news that Mr. Stone was having trouble filling some of the lead male roles.

[Hildy]

YUP..that’s the script I have!

[Hildy]

Did you tell her I don't like assholes who try to kill my father?! [...] Did you tell her I'm going to kick his SORRY MOTHERFUCKING ASS ALL OVER THE MIDEAST?!"

Well, looks like he got something right!

[Hildy]

Do you think people would be angry to learn it’s being financed by Communist China? I feel like Bob Dole in 1996 -WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE???

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Isn’t it incredibly bad?"

My wife and I were discussing this earlier this evening, and she mentioned that Stone will try to release it before the election. I said that Michael Moore tried this four years ago, and I don't think "President Kerry" was helped much. Besides which, John McCain isn't George W. Bush, so I don't see what Stone's point is.

[Hildy]

Stone thinks he can make money during an election year, like Michael Moore did. Stone’s brain is fried from years of drug use. It’s the only reasonable explanation.

[ThePythonicCow]

Do you think people would be angry to learn it’s being financed by Communist China?

Well ... as Willie Sutton said: "that's where the money is.”

If the Chinese are knowingly funding negative films of their enemies, then I'm glad to hear that they consider Bush one of their enemies.

[ThePythonicCow]

There was another FR thread on this film, a month ago: Bush Biographers Mixed On Script For Oliver Stone's 'W'

[Hildy]

There’s no way you could know this...but my Father wrote that book WHERE THE MONEY WAS with Willie Sutton the bank robber! I got to know Sutton pretty well...LOL!

[ThePythonicCow]

It’s a small world.

[Hildy]

...But I wouldn’t want to paint it (Old Steve Wright joke).

[metesky]

If anything in the movie turns out to be true I’m not voting for Bush again.

[Stultis]

JOSH BROLIN as Dubya?

Never saw it, but I heard he got great reviews for No Country. With a career finally hitting it’s stride, why would he choose to appear in a stinker like this?

[CarrotAndStick]

Go to

http://www.zshare.net/

to upload your entire .pdf file. You don’t even have to register.

Once upload is complete, it’ll give back a link, that you could post here or elsewhere. That’ll save you the trouble of mailing the file individually, and also prevent you from being pin-pointed as the prime source of the file.

It also provides a delete code that you can use if you want to stop the file from being shared.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Nobody seems to care because nobody watches Oliver Stone’s crappy movies anymore.

[visualops]

He was outstanding in No Country for Old Men. In fact he was far superior to the lead actor. That movie went down the tubes about 2/3 thru though.

[Vision]

"Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran,"

LOL

[Scarchin]

Yawn.

This movie will tank.

Let the babies have their bottle.

[laotzu]

He was outstanding in No Country for Old Men

Who did he play?

[indcons]

Ummm...Josh Brolin was the LEAD actor in NCFOM. Javier Bardem (Anton Chigurh) was the supporting actor.

[indcons]

Llewelyn Moss

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/

[bmwcyle]

Fax is offshore to website. Flood the world with copies.

[Pharmboy]

It really doesn't matter--NO ONE WILL SEE IT, save for the DailyKos and moveon.org types.

Just like no one is interested in seeing Hollywood's take on the Iraq War (all of those movies bombed big time) no one will want to see a commie's hit piece on Dubya, other than those committed lefties mentioned above.

[visualops]

Well, my mistake then I though the nutso killer guy was the lead role.

[Hildy]

OK ALL...I'm back for more hijinks today. I'm going to send this to all the conservative bloggers. I've been reading the posts, and again, we have to get over that thing of.."OH, LET THEM HAVE THEIR LITTLE MOVIE..nobody will go see it. Well, that's not true. More people will see it overseas than here..and that's what Stone is counting on. I'm tired of sitting around not doing anything. I know this isn't the biggest issue in the world, but the fact his is being financed by Communist China IS a big deal to me. We can at least make thing uncomfortable for Stone by sending the script around and mocking it. HEY, we could yave YOUTUBE recreations of it. I think it would be a hoot. By the time the movie comes out, it will be such a laughing stock..well..

A girl can dream, can't she?

[longtermmemmory]

it is 2008 and

“Bob Dole: The Movie” has cast john mccain as bob dole.

Hillary and Obama are just figting it out over how has to play monica...

[Hildy]

Does anyone else thing it’s weird that James Brolin played Reagan when he was alive and his son, Josh, is playing Bush? Is this the only stupid family who would be dumb enough to ruin their careers by playing living Presidents??? Just a thought.