McClellan's book on Bush White House headed for the screen?
Given that we live out here within smelling distance of the smoke from Universal Studios, we open this with the caveat that agents are always talking with someone about movie rights. That's what they do. Usually over lunch. A long lunch.
Still, given the reception for HBO's recent "Recount," about the Florida leg of the 2000 election, and the other projects already in the works on the Bush years (and there's still seven months to go), why not a film version of Scott McClellan's "What Happened" memoir of the George Bush White House?
Politico suggests Jonah Hill to play McClellan, which gets our speculation gene fired up. Who to play Bush? Who to play Dick Cheney?
That's why we have a comments section -- to let you answer such burning questions (hey, this is politics; it can't all be strategy and policy-wonk talk). Who would you cast?
-- Scott Martelle
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Posted by Scott Martelle on June 4, 2008 in Books , Campaigning , Celebrities , Current Affairs , Film , Gimmicks , Humor , Media , Political History , President Bush , Satire , Silliness , Television , Vice President Cheney | Permalink
Don Frederick has served as an editor helping guide coverage of every presidential election since 1984. He is a third-generation Washingtonian, so watching the political world comes naturally to him.
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000.
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Here's my list, Scott:
Dubbya - Will Ferrell (of course)
Cheney - Darrel Hammond (again, of course)
George H.W. Bush - Dana Carvey (ain't gunna do it)
Karl Rove - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Scooter Libby - Collin Quinn
Valerie Plame - Heather Locklear
Joe Wilson - Rainn Wilson
Osama Bin Laden - Kal Penn (from Harold & Kumar fame)
Saddam Hussein - Adrian Grenier
Donald Rumsfeld - James Cromwell
FEMA scenes
Michael Brown - Kevin Spacey
Michael Chertoff - Abe Vigoda
Kathleen Blanco - Julia Sweeney
Ray Nagin - Jason Taylor (after the Dolphins release him)
Whaddaya think?
Posted by: Greg from Riverside | June 04, 2008 at 01:15 PM