Democrat fundraiser Michael Douglas in talks to play Republican Ronald Reagan..[in new film]

Daily Mail ^ | Aug 30, 2012 | Daily Mail Reporter

[kevcol]

He may be a lifelong Democrat, but Michael Douglas is reported to be in discussions to play the famously conservative Republican U.S. president Ronald Regan.

The Wall Street actor is being considered for the lead role in the Cold War drama, Reykjavik, which takes place over a few days in 1986, when Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met for peace talks in the Icelandic capital.
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The Wall Street actor is currently wrapping up shooting on Behind the Candelabra, the Steven Soderbergh-directed movie based on the life of Liberace.

Douglas stars as the flamboyant entertainer in the HBO film which also features Matt Damon, who plays his gay lover

[kevcol]

Also,

Participant Media, whose mandate is to create awareness of the issues that shape lives, will finance the $10 million film, which is scheduled to begin shooting in March in Germany. Participant is no stranger to hot-button political topics, having backed the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth

Other films by this group include:

•American Gun: is a powerful series of interwoven storylines that bring to light how the proliferation of guns in America dramatically affect and shape the every day lives of its citizens

•Chicago 10 is a parable of hope, courage and ultimate victory, the story of young Americans speaking out and taking a stand in the face of an oppressive and armed government.

•Jimmy Carter Man From Plains explores both the private and public sides of Jimmy Carter, whose intense sense of justice compels him to pursue, with undiminished energy and hope, his lifelong and deeply spiritual vision of reconciliation and peace.

•In 2009, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad launched a plan to demonstrate that his people were deserving of statehood, inspiring them to change their destiny and seek UN membership. Since then, they’ve made remarkable progress

...and so forth.

Can't wait for this one! /s

[jwalsh07]

Sacrilege!

[nhwingut]

Another Hollywood hit piece.

[JaguarXKE]

Oh I’m sure this will be a fair, accurate portrayal and not a post-Mortum character assassination.

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s a desperate ploy to make Maureen Dowd stop stalking him.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I'm surprised they don't get Jeff Spicoli to do it.

[Mouton]

Hopefully when Douglas was being treated for throad cancer, someone wispered in his ear that under Obamacare at his age he would have been sent out the door with a pack of cigarettes to help him through his passage.

[SJSAMPLE]

Reagan walked away from Iceland the hero. Anybody want to bet he becomes the villain?

[RichInOC]

We should probably give thanks it’s Michael and not Kirk.

[dsutah]

I don’t know if it will be. His Dad, Kirk Douglas, was an old friend of Ronald Reagan’s. Why I say that, is that both he and Charlton Heston were invited to the burial service of Pres Reagan out in Calif., neither he or Heston were able to go due to illness! They mentioned him specifically as being an old friend, as well as Heston! If this is still true, I don’t think his Dad would like it much if he played Reagan in a bad light! So, who knows?

[kempster]

This is a movie that should be boycotted before they even shoot it. If they lose 50% of their audience maybe they won’t go forward.

[AU72]

From Liberace to Reagan. That’s an actor with range.

[originalbuckeye]

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!

I always look to see if a movie is made by Participant. At least I know the agenda. IIRC, there was a recent movie that pleasantly surprised me; made by Participant but not completely Leftist. Might have been the one with Clooney and Gosling. The complete sleaze was a Democrat.

[reg45]

Will CZJ play Nancy?

[originalbuckeye]

Who do we want to portray Ronaldus Magnus? Perhaps Jim Caviezel?

[ScaniaBoy]

•American Gun: is a powerful series of interwoven storylines that bring to light how the proliferation of guns in America dramatically affect and shape the every day lives of its citizens

And I can't wait for the sequel: American Gun II: Fast and Furious. /s

[ridesthemiles]

There is another movie in the works that has JANE FONDA playing Nancy Reagan!!!

How about that for sacrilege????

[SMARTY]

Another Hollywood whore, not too principled to resist cashing in on the life and image of a President whose supporters they'd spit on without a second thought!

[ridesthemiles]

Jimmy Carter Man From Plains explores both the private and public sides of Jimmy Carter, whose intense sense of justice compels him to pursue, with undiminished energy and hope, his lifelong and deeply spiritual vision of reconciliation and peace. “””

Did it also ‘explore’ the multiple bankruptcies that Jimmah Carter filed?

Over & Over again. He couldn’t tun a business worth peanuts, either. Obama & he have that in common!

[kevcol]

Perhaps Jim Caviezel

I would love that, but fat chance Hollywood(and Participant in particular) would risk casting a Conservative in the role. That would draw attention to the lie that liberal activism and talented artists/actors are one and of the same.