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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...

It had been widely believed that the film would be a "controversial movie about George W. Bush's rise to power."

Bush Biographers Mixed On Script For Oliver Stone's 'W' By Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni April 7, 2008 President George W. Bush is a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with baseball, Saddam Hussein and a conflicted relationship with his dad. Or at least that's how he's portrayed in the script for Oliver Stone's upcoming feature "W." But how accurate is that depiction? As the film preps for its April 21 start date, The Hollywood Reporter sent a copy of the screenplay to four Bush biographers for their comments. The draft is dated Oct. 17, 2007, and has recently been circulated to...

"The Bush administration is coming together -- and adding a key ally for good measure. Oliver Stone has found the actress to play Condoleezza Rice in his upcoming "W," with Thandie Newton 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. Rice and Blair are the first non-Bush roles to be cast; Josh Brolin, James Cromwell, Elizabeth Banks and Ellen Burstyn had previously been cast as George W., George Sr., Laura and Barbara Bush, respectively...."

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) -- Hundreds of camels have died in Saudi Arabia this week from a mystery ailment. Cars stop on a Riyadh highway to make way for a caravan of camels. The animals are big business in Saudi Arabia. The Agriculture Ministry has said 232 camels died in the space of four days in the Dawasir Valley, 250 miles south of Riyadh. King Abdullah has promised compensation for owners, who say the real number of deaths is far higher. Agriculture ministry officials have denied an infectious disease caused the deaths and blamed them on animal feed supplied by...

Script asks: 'How did an alcoholic bum become most powerful leader in world?' How different the world might look now if the US president and his advisers had settled on the phrase Axis of Unbearably Odious, or Axis of Hatred. But they rejected that and instead plumped for Axis of Evil, and the rest is history. So begins the script to Oliver Stone's new movie, W, on the life of George W Bush, which begins filming this month and will be produced at speed. Stone, a director with a keen eye for publicity, is thought to want to get the...

Daddy Issues, War Lust in Oliver Stone's 'W' Controversial Filmmaker's Early Script Depicts President Bush's Hard-Partying Youth and Feuds With His Father By MARCUS BARAM April 1, 2008 — It's a classic American story: In the prime of his life, a man who parties too much and lives in the shadow of his esteemed father turns his life around. He gives up alcohol, embraces religion and finds a new purpose. But will his desire to impress his dad and purge his personal demons put the world in danger? Coming soon to a movie theater near you: controversial director Oliver Stone's...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Brandishing "the sword of Islam," a Palestinian boy stabs President Bush to death in revenge for American and Israeli actions in a new puppet show for children aired by Hamas-owned television in the Gaza Strip. The show, part of a series called "Exceptionals," first aired Sunday. In the episode, Bush, a hand-held puppet dressed in a green uniform and wearing boxing gloves, is shown talking to a Palestinian child The child, with tears in his voice, accuses Bush of killing his father in Iraq, his mother in Lebanon and his brothers and sisters in Gaza...

Director Oliver Stone has set James Cromwell to play George Herbert Walker Bush and Ellen Burstyn to play former first lady Barbara Bush in "W," a drama about the formative years of their son, President George W. Bush. Josh Brolin is playing the title character, and Elizabeth Banks will play first lady Laura Bush. Stone will direct from a script by his “Wall Street” co-writer Stanley Weiser. Moritz Borman is producing with Bill Block and Jon Kilik.

According to the IMDb, Oliver Stone has a movie called "Bush" due to open next year. It'll star Josh Brolin as GWB.

George Bush will have the dubious honor of having his life story portrayed on the big screen in an Oliver Stone movie, though Stone says it will not be an anti-Bush film. Bush will be played by Josh Brolin, stepson of the virulently anti-Bush Hollywood liberal Barbra Streisand. Stone, the ultra-leftist Hollywood producer best known for his admiration for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Venezuela's communist dictator Hugo Chavez who called Bush the devil, and the man behind controversial films such as "Nixon," "JFK," and "Platoon" insists he'll be fair despite his reputation as a harsh critic of the president...

Josh Brolin ready for the Oval Office? It’s all in the latest edition of the Access Hollywood Casting Call! Josh Brolin will play the president in the Oliver Stone-directed film “Bush,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Stone, who also helmed films about John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, is hoping to start production as early as the spring, in order to release the film around the fall presidential election. Brolin currently stars in the Coen brothers’ critically acclaimed drama “No Country For Old Men.”

Oliver Stone has set his sights on his next directing project, "Bush," a film focusing on the life and presidency of George W. Bush, and attached Josh Brolin to play the title role. The director has begun quietly shopping a script by his "Wall Street" co-writer Stanley Weiser. Pic will be produced by Moritz Borman, who teamed with Stone on "World Trade Center" and "Alexander," and Jon Kilik, a producer of "Alexander" as well as "Pinkville," the pre-strike project about the Army's investigation of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam that Stone expected to direct until United Artists pulled the...

It was Christmas week in the Colombian city of Villavicencio and the events, as they were set to unfold, had all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster. If only the "heroes" hadn't been exposed as liars. A 3-year-old boy, his mother and another woman, all hostages of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), were about to be freed. Credit for their release was to go to Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela. Former Argentine President Néstor Kirchner had flown up from Buenos Aires to take part in the show. Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone was on hand too, eager to document...

BOGOTA, Colombia — It was one of the boldest initiatives yet for Latin America's emerging leftist alliance and it didn't even get off the ground. Answering a call by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, political heavyweights from five governments attempted to break through a deadlock in the region's most entrenched conflict: Colombia's half-century guerrilla war. But for all their devotion to Latin American unity, observers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba and Ecuador couldn't persuade the secretive Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to abandon its deep mistrust of Colombia's government and fulfill a weeks-old promise to free three hostages... As...

Hollywood film-maker Oliver Stone shocked the audience at the British Comedy Awards with a bad-taste gag about the Suffolk murders. The director of 'Platoon' and 'Born On The Fourth Of July' was attending the ceremony to present the best comedy film prize to Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park. Taking the stage, he quipped: "It's great to be back in England. I feel like Jack The Ripper days are back. Nothing ever changes here." But his attempt at comedy was met with jeers and gasps of horror from the celebrity audience. Realising his joke had bombed, Stone sneered: "You're a...

Oliver Stone can visit Iran to make documentary film about Ahmadinejad Tehran Sept 19, 2007 IRNA Iranian President's advisor for art affairs Javad Shamaqdari said on Wednesday that American film director Oliver Stone had better pay a visit to Iran to get acquainted with realities about the country and make a documentary film on President Ahmadinejad. Shamaqdari added that given demands of film makers and media and Stone's eagerness to make a documentary film about President Ahmadinejad, it is better for him to travel to Tehran to hold talks in this respect. He underlined that the West shows incorrect image...

Ahmadinejad rejects film offer from Oliver Stone Jul. 3, 2007 1:22 By ASSOCIATED PRESS President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rejected a proposal by American Oscar winning movie director Oliver Stone to make a film about him because Stone is part the "Great Satan" cultural establishment, a semiofficial news agency reported. "I sent a negative answer by Ahmadinejad to Oliver Stone," the Fars agency quoted Mehdi Kalhor, media adviser to the president, as saying Sunday. "It is right that this person is considered part of the opposition in the US, but opposition in the US is a part of the Great Satan."...

Mehdi Kolhar, Ahmadinejad’s media adviser, said “Ahmadinejad rejected Oliver Stone’s request [to make a film about Ahmadinejad]”. He said “I sent Dr Ahmadinejad’s rejection to Oliver Stone because even though he is in the opposition in the states, but even the opposition in the states is a part of the big satan”. He added “We believe that the American movie-production system does not contain any element of culture or art and is only a tool”. “I must add that Dr Ahmadinejad was personally against this”. He concluded, “However, it is very clear why Stone asked for doing the movie. He...

irst it was Conan the Barbarian. Then it was Fidel Castro. And now, according to one foreign report, filmmaker Oliver Stone's next movie subject might well be Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Oscar winning director is seeking permission to start work on a proposed documentary about Ahmadinejad, according to a report from Iran. The Iranian Student News Agency said today Stone's project would be a profile of the president who has called for Israel to be destroyed. Permission is being sought to move forward with the project. "The request was made some three months ago. Stone is a professional filmmaker...

May 10, 2007 U.S. Investigates More Hollywood Cuba Trips Yet another famous Hollywood director is being investigated by the United States government for violating a federal law prohibiting trade and travel to the communist island of Cuba. Long a favorite of the liberal Hollywood elite, Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro welcomes all America bashers and especially dangerous fugitives convicted of atrocious crimes in the U.S. In fact, Castro has proudly announced that Cuba is home to several criminals on the FBI’s most wanted list, including a Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison after being convicted of murdering a New...

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose movies voiced the frustration of the Vietnam War generation, on Thursday unveiled a political ad calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. But those expecting a broadside from the man who made the searing anti-war films "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July" some 20 years ago may be disappointed. The 30-second television spot, sponsored by the MoveOn.org political action group and VoteVets.org, features a simple but impassioned plea by John Bruhns, a former infantry sergeant who fought in Iraq during the 2003 invasion and its aftermath. "We were told to liberate...

Director Oliver Stone is planning to direct an anti-war television commercial chosen by members of the liberal group MoveOn.org. The Stone ad campaign will focus on a specific American family affected by the war. Which family and soldier used will be determined by the votes of MoveOn.org members. An anti-war veterans organization, VoteVets.org -- which was responsible for the Super Bowl ad that included an Iraq war vet amputee -- is also backing the project. It was announced as liberal opponents of the Iraq war stepped up attacks on Republican congressional lawmakers who voted against a timeline for redeploying troops...

An expert on the CIA reveals how Hollywood bungled its chance to tell an astonishing true spy story...'I told Matt Damon he'd be a perfect spy - if he wasn't so short, fat, pretty and white', he reveals It began with a meeting in Chelsea with the film producer Oliver Stone. 'I've bought your book on James Jesus Angleton and I'm going to film it,' he said rather pugnaciously. 'No you haven't, I replied. 'Yes I have,' he insisted. We worked our way through two bottles of Pinot Noir before it turned out he'd bought a different book about James...

"The fact that he's dead is unfortunate but looking back on his life it's a very pleasant thought."The father of late The Doors singer Jim Morrison has branded the death of his estranged son "unfortunate," despite the rocker often singing about his family's imagined demise. George Morrison, a retired Navy admiral, insists memories of his rocker son are "pleasant" - even though he once joked his parents were dead and used Oedipal rant "The End" to imagine killing his dad and sleeping with his mother. However, in a new memoir of the band, George remains positive about his child. Contributing...

'Foreign Terrorist Organization' Reaches Out to Michael Moore, Noam ChomskyFriday , November 10, 2006 BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's largest rebel group is calling on , Oliver Stone and to help it reach a deal with the government on exchanging imprisoned guerrillas for rebel-held hostages, including three U.S. citizens.The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC, issued a letter made public Thursday asking the celebrities to advocate the swap to the American people."To the people of the United States, we ask for your always generous solidarity to pressure President Bush and his government to support a prisoner exchange in...

LOS ANGELES, Oct 16 (Reuters) - In a follow-up to his recent drama "World Trade Center," filmmaker Oliver Stone plans to direct a movie about the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, Paramount Pictures said on Monday. The film will be based in part on "Jawbreaker," a recent book chronicling the U.S.-led assault on the al Qaeda stronghold in Afghanistan's Tora Bora region and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, a spokeswoman for Paramount, which will make the film with Stone, told Reuters. Stone and Paramount, which released "World Trade Center" in August, optioned rights to "Jawbreaker" months ago, she said, confirming...

Filmmaker Oliver Stone blasted President Bush Thursday, saying he has "set America back 10 years." Stone added that he is "ashamed for my country" over the war in Iraq and the U.S. policies in response to the attacks of Sept. 11. "We have destroyed the world in the name of security," Stone told journalists at the San Sebastian International Film Festival prior to a screening of his latest movie, "World Trade Center." The film tells the true story of the survival and rescue of two policemen who were trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11,...

Oliver Stone hints at film tackling 9-11 'conspiracy' Agence France-Presse Last updated 11:22pm (Mla time) 09/11/2006 MOSCOW -- US filmmaker Oliver Stone, who surprised many with the patriotic flavor of his new film "World Trade Center," hinted here Monday that he is considering a more controversial follow-up investigating the "conspiracy" around 9-11. "There is a great story in a movie, a conspiracy by a group of people in the American administration who have an agenda and who used 9-11 to further that agenda," he told journalists while in Moscow as part of a world tour to promote his latest movie....

Award-winning US filmmaker Oliver Stone, whose latest movie "World Trade Center" is based on the 9/11 attacks, has said he would like to kill Osama bin Laden "with my own hands" in an interview published in Portugal. "I'm not a pacifist. If I could I would kill bin Laden and his group myself, with my own hands," he told weekly newspaper Expresso at the Venice Film Festival where his new movie had its premiere outside of North America. "We have to develop a spirit of tolerance amongst ourselves, but not towards those who kill people indiscriminately," he added. "World Trade...

Like a lot of conservative film critics, I was more than a little apprehensive to hear that anti-American conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone would be making a movie about 9/11. Fortunately, whatever his past cinematic sins and however many he may commit in the future, there is no reason to fear World Trade Center. On the contrary, Stone gives us many reasons to stand up and applaud. His latest (and, to date, most successful) effort tells the true story of John McLoughlin (Nicholas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Pena), two Port Authority police officers who went into the World Trade Center...

Wanted to share with people my thoughts of the movie WORLD TRADE CENTER. A extremely excellent film and one that should be considered for best picture. It has everyting in it - humor, drama, suspense, love, commitment, heroism, faithfulness. There is one scene in the movie that - to me - is the most important scene of the entire movie. When the businessman who returns to being a Marine is watching the events unfold on television, he tells his co-workers before he leaves "I don't know if you people realize it, but this nation is at war!" I hope that...

More than a year ago, when the announcement was made that controversial filmmaker Oliver Stone would be directing a movie about the September 11 attacks, a chorus of protests rose up, largely from conservatives. They said that Stone, an outspoken leftist and critic of U.S. foreign policy, would surely try to use the film as a political statement. They were wrong. Stone has made a stunning, deeply moving film about one of the most momentous days in American history. Its genius lies in its limited scope. World Trade Center is not a comprehensive account of September 11 but rather focuses...

All that's missing is most of the internal value and the entire larger social and political context.After years of wandering in the wilderness of conspiracy theory movies and embarrassing flops, brilliant moviemaker, Oliver Stone, tried to get back in Hollywood's good graces by filming a tribute to the victims of 9/11. He obviously wants to get back to winning Oscars — though on his own terms, of course. The movie opening this week was preceded by advanced screenings for opinion leaders, including one in Washington for conservatives. Critics generally give Stone credit for leaving behind the typical liberal "baggage" to...

‘World Trade Center’ omits Black soldier Following disasters of historically epic proportions like the attack on the World Trade Center, there are bound to be countless tales of self-sacrifice, heroism and triumph. Some stories, like those told in the movies “Flight 93” and Oliver Stone’s “World Trade Center,” premiering Aug. 9, are made into blockbusters for the world to see. Others are either whispered quietly among family and friends or confined to the memories and souls of those who refuse to speak of them. Such is the tale of United States Marine Corps Sgt. Jason L. Thomas--in spite of the...

Oliver Stone's new film, "World Trade Center," got off to a promising start at the box office on Wednesday, grossing better-than-expected receipts of $4.4 million in its first day, Paramount Pictures executives said on Thursday. They added that if the pace continued, the film about the battle to save two policemen trapped under tons of rubble in the September 11 attacks could bring in more than $20 million through its opening weekend -- a figure that would exceed expectations. The $65 million movie, which received several strong reviews, is the first big-budget feature to be made about the suicide hijackings,...

By now, most Freepers have heard that Oliver Stone has done what was, for him, the impossible: he made a pro-America movie. Yes, it's true, "World Trade Center" does not contain a single jab at the U.S., at patriotism, at the War on Terror, or even at President Bush. The 9/11 movie needed to be made. Unfortunately, this isn't it. Don't get me wrong: "World Trade Center" has some definite high points, and stirring moments. But the time between them often makes "Lord of the Rings" seem like a 90-second infomercial. The story is also well known by now. Port...

THE BIG PICTURE Oliver Stone Gets Patriotic With 'World Trade Center' How did the outspoken, conspiracy-minded director manage to make a film even conservatives embrace? By Patrick Goldstein Times Staff Writer August 8, 2006 It's hard to imagine there will ever be a better example of the folly of judging a filmmaker by his politics instead of his work than "World Trade Center," a movie opening Wednesday about a team of Port Authority police officers who become trapped in the twisted wreckage of the twin towers. The film celebrates self-sacrifice, personal heroism, the sanctity of family and essentially all that...

WHEN I FIRST heard that Oliver Stone would be directing "World Trade Center," my stomach did a flip. Stone's long career includes a few films that might be described as flawed. Less charitably they might be described as "propaganda." I'm thinking of his "JFK," which surrendered to witless assassination conspiracy theories, and "Born on the Fourth of July," which was passionately anti-war, as was the brilliant "Platoon."

ATLANTA - "World Trade Center" is about the last movie you might expect Oliver Stone to make. Not because of the subject matter. What makes Stone's intimate story of what happened to two Port Authority cops and their families on Sept. 11, 2001, different is that it's not at all political. No conspiracy theories. No jabs at the Bush administration. Instead, "World Trade Center" is heartwarming and reassuring, both a tear-jerker and a crowd-pleaser. A movie that won't make Americans feel better about 9/11 but at least feel good about how the country responded. Stone, who admits many people think...

America's most controversial filmmaker is mulling over the state of the nation, and he isn't quite sure if he's feeling hopeful or hopeless about America these days. "I feel hopeful and I feel like we're in deep sh--," says director Oliver Stone. "I guess I feel like most people do. There is an America that I grew up in that I love. I think to some degree that it's been stolen. But there are enough of us to get it back." This brings him to his new movie, "World Trade Center," opening Wednesday. Based on the lives of two real...

IT IS DIFFICULT, maybe even impossible, to render critical judgment on a movie such as World Trade Center. The normal aspects of appraisal are meaningless. It would be absurd to measure the film by its pacing or its cinematography. Ultimately, the only thing that matters is whether or not it feels right, and even that nebulous criterion probably has more to do with the viewer than the movie. All of that said, Oliver Stone's World Trade Center is a solid piece of filmmaking. WTC is an important movie. There were three stories from 9/11 which needed to be told. The...

A year ago, August 2005, I reported Par amount was doing a movie about 9/11. I reported then it's a no-win. We're talking sacred ground. The massacre heard 'round the world. Each month still brings new grief and lawsuits. Over the building. Over the plans. Over the illnesses. Over the proposed memorial site. Over the human remains at Staten Island's Fresh Kills dumpsite.

Hollyweird’s Wake-Up Call? By Rachel Marsden FrontPageMagazine.com July 24, 2006 Hollywood director Oliver Stone dropped by Toronto’s Varsity Cinemas this week to premiere his new movie, World Trade Center, about two of the last police officers who were pulled alive from the World Trade Center rubble, post-9/11. With him was Scott Strauss, one of the real-life police rescuers. Stone says Strauss and the other 9/11 families kept him in check. That’s quite the feat, given that Stone has called the Cold War “irritating”, says nationalism and patriotism are “evil forces”, considers Fidel Castro a personal friend, and mused that...

July 21, 2006, 6:41 a.m. Get StonedWorld Trade Center is good. By Kathryn Jean Lopez United 93 was an important movie. America was ready for the movie — both because enough time had passed since the September 11 attacks that a major motion picture wouldn’t be crass, and because enough time had passed since 9/11 that many of us could afford to be reminded. Reminded of our fellow Americans who were murdered that day. Reminded what brave, resourceful people they were. Reminded of something even more obvious but easy to forget: that America was attacked. Reminded that we are...

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Free Republic, In thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634639/posts, my friend areafiftyone encouraged me to write a short review of Oliver Stone's new film, as I have seen an advance preview. I am not inclined to give you a pat plot review, but I have attached the official Paramount synopsis below. Following are my observations: First, I was worried that World Trade Center would somehow lean left politically. It does not. The film sets a decidedly patriotic tone. It is not, however, a film about patriotism or even a de facto "heroism". If anything, and at the risk of...

Hollywood director Oliver Stone dropped by Toronto’s Varsity Cinemas this week to premiere his new movie, World Trade Center, about two of the last police officers who were pulled alive from the World Trade Center rubble, post-9/11. With him was Scott Strauss, one of the real-life police rescuers. Stone says Strauss and the other 9/11 families kept him in check. That’s quite the feat, given that Stone has called the Cold War “irritating”, says nationalism and patriotism are “evil forces”, considers Fidel Castro a personal friend, and mused that if he was George W. Bush he would “shoot himself”. With...

Ready for a shocker? Oliver Stone has made a movie that is sure to please cops, fire fighters, red-staters, the military, and even the GOP. Yes, you read the name correctly. It's that Oliver Stone. I recently had the chance to screen Stone's latest film "World Trade Center." The movie I saw was not a final cut; it was a high-definition video version with a temporary score. Stone had prepared a written statement, which was read to the audience prior to the screening and explained the unfinished state of the preview cut. Notwithstanding, what came through on the screen was...

"You kept me alive!" I wasn't skeptical when I was invited to a private screening of Oliver Stone's upcoming "World Trade Center" movie. I was downright cynical. As a conservative I've long considered so much of his work the bane of my existence. From "Platoon" to "Salvador" to "Born on the Fourth of July" to "JFK," and let's not forget last year's ghastly "Alexander," Stone has delivered one left-wing screed after another, specifically intended, I'm convinced, to bring my blood to the boiling point. When I learned a few months ago that he was working on a project about 9/11,...

"World Trade Center," the new Oliver Stone movie about 9/11 that opens next week, I couldn't help but think of a brilliant remark director Stanley Kubrick once made about a universally praised film. "Think that was about the Holocaust?" Kubrick said. "That was about success, wasn't it? The Holocaust is about 6 million people who get killed. 'Schindler's List' was about 600 people who don't." What Kubrick was saying is this: "Schindler's List" may be powerful, moving and an important reminder of a terrible crime, but it still manages to distort the meaning of the Holocaust by turning it into...