According to "Entertainment Weekly," you still haven't cast Dick Cheney in your film "W" about George W. Bush (a film, I have to admit, I'm looking forward to seeing.) You complain about the considerable number of older Hollywood actors who are Republicans and so don't want the job.
Richard Dreyfuss.
Hell, he was halfway to Cheney back in "The American President." He can knock the role out of the park. And he's part of a group advocating the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.
Have your people call his people.
PAD
Posted by Peter David at May 14, 2008 06:12 PM | TrackBack | Other blogs commentingIMDB doesn't show a Karl Rove yet. I suggest Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Not that I have any desire to see this movie. A dramatization of something that's already pretty unbelievable will just make my head swim. I really think I need at least 20 years before the events and the movie. 30 would be better.
I have to admit, Richard Dreyfuss would be perfect ... though I'd also like to see Jude Ciccolella (Mike Novick on "24") play Darth Cheney. He looks a lot like The Evil One.
(Unfortunately, so does my dad, according to a lot of people.)
Fred Thompson isn't doing much of anything these days.
Ray Wise?
Anthony Hopkins?
Mike Myers (in Doctor Evil wardrobe)?
Quick! Someone get Burgess Mededith DNA! We've got some clonin' to do.
Any of the actors that played The Master from Doctor Who available?
I don't see Ray Wise as Cheney, but he's got to have SOME role in the administration, surely. Would BOB pass up the opportunity?
Dreyfuss is a very solid choice; I also like Kenneth Welsh, who's already played a Cheney-like figure once.
Hopkins has already played Nixon, so I can't see him doing Cheney as well.
Just as a hoot ... Brad "Wormtongue" Dourif?
TWL
Harris Yulin as Cheney. (He did the role, more or less, in CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER.)
It'll nevuh happen, but Clint Eastwood as Rumsfeld.
Harris Yulin as Cheney. (He did the role, more or less, in CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER.)
It'll nevuh happen, but Clint Eastwood as Rumsfeld.
For Cheney, they can recycle Lee J Cobb footage from 12 Angry Men. If it wasn't for the wheelchair, I would say they could recycle Lionel Barrymore footage from It's a Wonderful Life. The scene where he takes George Bailey's $8,000 could even be part of the footage of where Cheney takes $73m from Saddam Hussein for quadrupling his oil revenues as the head of Halliburton. For Rumsfeld, they can coach Cate Blanchet to impersonate Henry Fonda.
Someone please channel Larry Linville.
Frank Burns belongs in that administration somewhwere. Colonel Flagg, too.
How about Henry Czerny? He can play slimy as good as anyone.
Either that or I got a worm ridden chunk of wood in the yard.
It aces the range of expression.
Frank Burns belongs in that administration somewhwere.
Absolutely, but not as Cheney. He's Rumsfeld through and through.
TWL
Gene Hall said: "Someone please channel Larry Linville.
Frank Burns belongs in that administration somewhere. Colonel Flagg, too."
Frank Burns is already in the administration.
I've said it before; I'll say it again. Frank Burns is in the White House.
Rick
C'mon. We have *seen* the Retailer Incentive cover for Star Trek: New Frontier #1.
PETER DAVID for Dick Cheney...
I think they should make a film about a guy who took over a bunch of land, got a lot of people killed, and acted like he was god's gift to everything.
What was his name? Oh yes: Mohammed.
It's amazing how after 9/11 Hollywood turned coward and their first thought was 'how can we make money off this and make it look as if it wasn't the fault of the people who did it.'
I've never seen an industry more scared of arab terrorists. If you listen to the film industry we're the worst people in the world and they'd rather vote for Heinrich Himler than George Bush. Assuming they know who Heinrich Himmler is.
Mohommed's converted didn't trade in a dollar of the world's sympathy for 5¢ of the privilege to colonize territories at their discretion.
I think they should do a movie about a president who traded in the highest popularity in presidential polling as we know it for the lowest, and the fools who magically think History will treat his hijacking of the Florida election better than the Lincoln assassination. What was his name? Oh yes: George W Bush.
If Richard isn’t available and the actor is of the right political bent why not go with someone Stone has worked with before?
Vincent D’Onofrio
Just my 2 cents
Yes!
Donofrio does have that edge and intensity as well.
I'd like to see the pic with Laura Dern as Katherine Harris, but for Oliver Stone's Katherine Harris, How about Charles Busch?
Anyone who's seen "Die Mommy Die" will get this one.
Peter,
According to today's Hollywood Reporter, Dreyfus is in final negotiations to assay this exact role in the Stone movie.
See:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ic8cebb424120f3a51745ab13054efadc
Bob Ingersoll
Peter,
According to today's Hollywood Reporter, Dreyfus is in final negotiations to assay this exact role in the Stone movie.
See:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ic8cebb424120f3a51745ab13054efadc
Bob Ingersoll
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=45367
Well, I'll be....!
Now THAT is an impressive display of prescience.
I also can't wait to see Dreyfuss in the role.
TWL
With Dreyfuss, they can rename the movie "Whose Yellowcake Uranium Is It Anyway?"
Okay PAD, 'fess up - who do you know in the Stone camp? Hmmmm? Oh, just a case of "great minds think alike", is it? HMMMMMMM?
You were spot on, Peter...
http://aintitcool.com/node/36845
Confirmed, Dreyfuss as a Dick.
Any predictions for the Belmont, PAD?
Maybe someone could channel Werner Klemperer for Rumsfeld...