Kerozene Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 + = 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.More than one option * (Co) Daily Variety Filmography, Year, Role * (Co) Daily Variety 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Teaser : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x69hto_w-teaser-trailer_shortfilms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerozene Posted July 29, 2008 Author Share Posted July 29, 2008 ah merde... trop tard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomfincher Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Trailer VO :http://www.ecranlarge.com/movie_video-view-12148-2760.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stéphane Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 j'espère qu'il va tout péter avec sa bio du plus mauvais président de tous les temps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPG Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Tu les as tous connus ? Tous les pays ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stéphane Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 totalement !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natale Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 je me demande qui jouera michael moore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUCK YOU BILL MURRAY Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 je me demande qui jouera michael moore Lui : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 L'OST dispo ici : http://app.topspin.net/artist/215260/home?account_id=215260 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomfincher Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 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, Le mec vient de me vendre le film en une phrase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basculo Cui Cui Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 sg7vwicPx98 un biopic qui arrive trop tot (qui nous dit qu'il ne nous fasse pas un dernier coup de génie ? ), assez fade pour du Stone et qui zappe surtout le moment du 11 septembre meme ! reste un casting en béton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ruthven Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 On peut objectionner que le 11 septembre, Stone a déjà donné. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basculo Cui Cui Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 oui ca a donné world trade center je pense qu'ils aurait du montrer le passage ou il apprends l'attaque quand il rend visite dans une école Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ruthven Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Mais ça vaut le coup de le voir ce film ou ça fait par exemple double emploi avec le docu de Karl Zero passé sur Arte ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basculo Cui Cui Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 j'ai pas vu le karl zero donc je ne peux pas me prononcer disons que c'est pas indispensable de le voir au ciné Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPG Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Comparer Oliver Stone et Karl Zero, c un peu comme comparer Jacques Brel et Michal, qd meme, non ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ruthven Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPG Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyril Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 VS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natale Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Mais Karl Zero nous a bien averti: "méfiez vous des contrefaçons!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPG Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prodigy Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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