The real 'W' (or at least the first few pages of the script)

By Steven Zeitchik

Even before a single talent deal was signed or locations scouted, Oliver Stone's "W" was hotter than a Texas afternoon in July. Conservative pundits were ready to pounce on the provocateur for what they said was agenda-driven filmmaking, while Stone and his partners said they were simply telling the story of the Bush White House without varnish or sugar-coating.

As Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni report in THR today, both turn out to be right -- sort of. According to four Bush scholars who read a draft of the script, the tale has elements that are unquestionably accurate (like when George Jr. comes home drunk and nearly gets into a fistfight with his father) and elements that are just plain made-up (like when the president and his advisers discuss high-level policy in a casual, even frat-house, sort of manner).

Rather than just let the experts judge, we decided to offer the first few pages of the script, in which Bush and his advisers prep for the "Axis of Evil" speech, here on Risky Biz -- with the caveat that this came from a draft of the script dated in mid-October and, according to sources close to the project, may have changed in the interim.

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Comments

[Chris]

Hasn't Hollywood learned anything yet? Movies about current events have had abysmal ticket sales at the box office. Just look at all the box office failures about the Iraq War in the past few years. I see this movie as being yet another box office failure for Hollywood.

[parker godwin]

I'm not a big fan of bush, but I don't like bullies piling on. If you want to have an accurate portrayal, do it. Don't make stuff up. Its like that ronald reagan drama a few years back. It wasn't a docu-drama, it was a left wing political hit job. Leftists always yell about the evil manipulative conservatives. Truth is, leftists in the film industry use their power and talent to manipulate public opinion through propaganda.And the fact they want to release the bush film in time to influence the november election is enough to make Goebbels proud. Lying is lying whether its done by rightists or leftists. It all disgusts me.

[Chukkal]

Another flop!! I love these guys spending mega bucks out of their own pocket their bank a/c vanishing in the wind!!!

[Demosthenes]

You're right, Chris. These films may interest a certain segment of liberal audiences but, in general, people just DON'T want to walk into a theatre and see more of the same depressing/frustrating current events thrown back at them with a slightly "agendized" spin. Just give me pure escapism at the movies and let CNN do everything else.

[Claire]

Another flop indeed! Oliver, wake up. This is not interesting to most of us.

[rpupkin77]

My god that is god awful dialog, talk about bad exposition "but they aren't aligned like Germany and Italy and..." blah blah blah, what a bunch of garbage!

Honestly I don't care that Stone is making a movie about Bush - it will bomb, of course - but god, at least make the dialog work. That is the easy part.

[Sluke]

This movie will flop. Stone and others in Hollywood think low poll numbers will translate into ticket sales. They won't.
Seriously, where's the movie on Clinton and Monica Lewinsky? I didn't like Clinton and I still wouldn't watch such a film. Why do the dimwits running the studios think stuff like this will work?

[BLC]

Stone has not made an intellectually honest movie in years. Everything has become a vehicle for his personal Leftist viewpoint.
He is a half step from becoming another Michael Moore. Bush has been a major dissappointment to me, but Hollywood and the Media's pathological hatred of the man has transcended any definition of reason. It will be decades before any honest review of Bush's administration will be possible.
Till then, spare us the propaganda.

[patrick]

Is the script the winning entry of a third grade screenplay writing contest? I don't know sir...

[billy buoy]

Oliver Stone is the biggest Fiction Writer in all of History. He always adds his own spin to every piece of work, I mean art, he puts together---from Nam to Morrison, Kennedy to Nixon, Stoner adds his own view of how the world was/is. He'll do the same to W..I'm sure he's in bed now with all the left wing hollywood types and has long since forgotten he once served his country, and thus will embellish whatever truth he so chooses.

No one is going to see these recent hatchet job movies about Iraq, our Men in Service, and wont go either to see their current President getting Tazed. Overseas sales will do well, but the French also think Jerry Lewis is a god, so what do they know.

[billy buoy]

Oliver Stone is the biggest Fiction Writer in all of History. He always adds his own spin to every piece of work, I mean art, he puts together---from Nam to Morrison, Kennedy to Nixon, Stoner adds his own view of how the world was/is. He'll do the same to W..I'm sure he's in bed now with all the left wing hollywood types and has long since forgotten he once served his country, and thus will embellish whatever truth he so chooses.

No one is going to see these recent hatchet job movies about Iraq, our Men in Service, and wont go either to see their current President getting Tazed. Overseas sales will do well, but the French also think Jerry Lewis is a god, so what do they know.

[rpupkin77]

Oh yeah, I'm sure some frat douche back at Yale in '66 actually said "this and our vast family fortunes is why we run the world". Who is the f-ing fool who wrote this?

[Ragu]

Another turkey at the box office. Let them waste their money making films that bomb instead of throwing bombs in the political realm.

[James Callahan]

Stated already - it will flop. The American people do not wish to participate in an attack on a president. What the left fail to understand is disapproval and opposition to Bush do not equal dislike for him personally. During Clinton's failings, he constantly had the polls showing how much people liked him, not agreed with him, just liked him. Many people disagree with Bush's policies, but that does not mean they are stupid enough to take Norm's poor writing as mana from heaven on Bush. A man who read a bunch of books on Bush knows as much about Bush as he does about Amindinejad. You will get the 30-40% who will go because they loathe anything conservative and this feeds their opinion. Their tickets will not save this film, nor will dvd nor international (well, it is possible international will - Egypt will probably swallow this crap and the Sauds). Americans are smarter than that.

[CB]

Just another "I hate Bush" flick not worth the time to watch it. Go ahead and spend millions on it. You'll loose your a**.

[Tiffany]

I think that as Americans, and living in today's world where so many people are against one another.....we have to unite as one against the world. If we do not keep our own personal opinions about our leader to ourselves, it just makes us look weaker as a nation. Sad, very very sad.

[Michael]

This isn't a movie. It's a PR stunt by Stone to get his name back in the press and on the A-List celebrities party invites.

[Joe Sheppard]

I have my disagreements with President Bush, but I am disgusted by the Hollywood cowards and wannabees taking aim at the Presidency. The result of this sort of unhumorous satire is to demean the office of the Presidency (particularly one the Hollywood "elite" happens to hate). First, we had President Clinton bring the White House down to the level of a whorehouse, and now a small, vocal bunch of actors and actresses who wish to destroy the very structure of our government as delineated in the Constitution, wish to finish the job.
Go ahead and try! You are free to express yourself and show the majority of good citizens what you are full of, from your toes to the top of your heads!

[Tom]

This is the story of the Bush white house from a leftists point of view. It's the same tired bunch, Stone, Brolin...They can't be trusted to be objective and truthful because they haven't been in the past!

[Rico Smith]

Who gives a hoot about the subject of this movie enough to spend $10 at the theatre to watch a fantasy about a spoiled brat? I would rather spend that money towards our monthly garbage bill.

[Amy]

Hmmm... The first few pages feel a little preachy. I stay out of church cause I'm not a fan of sermons, but I'll reserve my judgement when I see the script/movie in its entirety.

[NSR]

Man, you people are simpletons...that's not the real script. You've been played.

[Paul R]

This movie will flop like all the others. When will they learn. By the way are Stone and M. Moore brothers?

[Walter]

Its not stupid, its just boring. like an 12:45am SNL skit. I'm sure this movie will make Stone's Nixon movie appear like an interesting hit.

[trademark registration]

Political flicks like this used to be popular. But I'm not sure this is going to draw the interest that Bowling for Columbine had.

[JB]

Stone could save the money he'll lose at the box office and write a polemic in the NYT. The NYT would give him an entire section if he wished. I don't see why he has to increase the Hollywood "carbon footprint" just to tell the world that he has an obsessive hatred for George Bush.

[Hookwrench]

This will be popular in Turkey and Iran.

[Lloyd]

Boring. Acutally if you read the wikipedia bio on Oliver Stone, it sounds like a much better movie. Growing up rich, stock broker father takes little Oliver a Hooker to loose his virginity. Dreamed of becoming a mercenary in Congo. Vietnam PTSD, Marchant Marine swabby, married 3 times, A few good movies and a dozen expensive flops. Sounds like a much better film than some poorly written stick figure that everybody knows the plot and ending of.

[Jack Howe]

Hope Stone includes the fist fight that Bush and Cheney had in the Oval office in early 2000 where Bush ends up with a black eye and bloody chin,

[A]

April Fools. This can't be real.

[Fisher]

ROTFLMAO!!!

Is this even freaking serious??

[JP McT]

What absolute DROSS! Another film by Leftists for Leftists. When will these egomaniacs begin to understand that the average citizen of this country does NOT hang on their every word. Mr. Stone and his ilk have one mission in life...and that is to entertain me...when they can no longer do that, my 15 bucks stay in my pocket and he gets to write his memoirs. I am not amused.

[jacksprat]

Ollie Stoned makes a documentary about Bush Derangement Syndrome....Oh, yeah, this'll be B.O. Boffo!

[Frank]

Total BS

[Frank]

From Midland, total BS

[Karyn]

More like Oliver 'Stoned.' Like all the other twisted versions of past republican presidents. What I'd really like to see if Oliver had REAL 'STONES' is a TRUTHFUL
adaptation of the 'Clinton years.' Don't spare any of the truth, and I guarantee a box office hit. Sex.. Bill and his Harem. Drama... Bill explaining his Harem to Hillary. And Violence... Hillary beating the crap out of Bill. Take notes Oliver ol' Oliver!

[Frank]

Total BS

[Bush]

painfully written script. who can watch the garbage hollywood produces these days. a good movie is a rarity and certainly doesn't come off the politically driven scripts of most writers, directors and producers. this should have been a moore documentary instead of trying to pass itself off as a serious attempt at movie-making. As Bush changes history, these small men can only sit aside and critique. the critic adds very little to the world in the end.

[Fatty Parker]

The idiots who think this movie will tank just because other movies about current events have, are wrong. The other movies criticized our troops and our country. This one cast a light on our dim-witted president and people will love it.

[hailstate]

This movie will kill overseas, because it feeds into the most simplistic Bush-hating stereotypes. America can handle an accurate portrait of Bush, positive and negative, but this seems like a joke.

[Marilyn Barfoot]

When did Oliver drop the "d" from his last name? So pitiful.

[Marilyn Barfoot]

When did Oliver drop the "d" from his last name? So pitiful.

[Todd]

This is hilarious! Kudos to Stone for playing from the hip. Is this so disturbing? Noone is perfect and I don't think ANYONE would accuse this President of perfection. Look at what American citizens are having to stoop to in order to keep their homes!

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[NBK_JFK]

Wow...what a great script! This will definetely keep W from winning another term.
Really Oliver...
What the hell are you thinking...I'll save my $8 bucks from your next flop.

[Scotty Breauxman]

O'Come on people. let's wait til the movie actually comes out first before we jump the gun and trash it. Really, no one can really admit to being a Bush fan...let's wait until the film comes out before we thrash Ollie for being a dork...He has proven himself to be a lavish exagerationalist...
Comparing him to M. Moore is an insult to French people around the globe.

[steve]

forget the bias etc...

From the looks of it, this is a a horrible, amateurish script.

Maybe it is because I am not used to reading movies on paper, since the dialogue is rarely literary quality, but that looks like it was written by a 14 year old

[Kai]

Ah, Hollywood at its modern best ... and I wonder why I long for the good ol' days of Bogey and Bacall. They don't seem to understand that we are not looking for a political hit jobs or a script that bludgeons us with with their leftist views. All I can say is, "Scoreboard!" Their box office numbers will continue to plummet as they keep using the silver screen as their personal political soapbox.

[ArmandV]

Oliver Stone couldn't tell a straight, honest story if his life depended on it. He even blew the Jim Morrison story in "The Doors," which was skewered by Door keyboardist Ray Manzarek. I guess the Hollywood left will have their brief orgasm when it hits the theaters. The rest of us will just ignore it.

[john]

show me the money,hugho Chavez bank rolled this farce

[IcePik]

I wish I had something to add that is as intelligent as the above prose. Everybody seems to be on the money. Nice.

[Jim Carolus]

Man, I can't stand Bush...but this screenplay? I don't know. I think there needs to be some very important choices made by the actors for this to come off. Much of Bush's dialogue, frankly, is WAY too broadly drawn. Is this supposed to be satire? We're talking Saturday Night Live-caliber here. There are a few glimmers of hope in the discussion of the differences between Iran the other "Axis" countries, that has promise. But Bush getting mad at Rove for making a joke?! "Ayatolla Cockamamie"? That frat guy openly announcing the "family fortunes" of the fraternity members? I don't think so. Give Jon Stewart a pen and he'd give you something more realistic than that. Hell, I'D give you something more realistic than that! This film seems to be gaining a very good cast, and it's going to need it. If Oliver Stone is smart, he'll LISTEN to the suggestions of his actors, and not adhere stubbornly and foolishly to this script. It seems solid politically (the important part), but the character nuances need SERIOUS work...and the actors can HELP ON THIS. And dump the dumb attempts at humor with Bush's malapropisms, a little of that goes a VERY long way. I seriously wish I could see this whole script because I feel like I see strategies for turning the first four pages from the mediocrity it currently is into some thing very, very good. But just as a blanket suggestion based on what I've read: NEEDS MORE SUBTLETY.

[Paavo]

LOL. Maybe someone should make a movie about Oliver Stone making the movie about "W". Now that would be funny. Probably a hit comedy.

[CW2 Bhawk pilot]

Hey Scottie I'll admit to being a Bush supporter, even with 2 tours to iraq and currently in Afghanistan. You libs can kiss my ASS! Hollywood can kiss it too!!! McCarthey had it right, bunch of elites wanting to control the masses. PS my unit is 100% Bush.

[Mike]

I can't wait to see it. It's a shame that this non-fiction can't end with Bush/Cheney having a steel door slam behind them as they begin a life sentence as cell mates. I really don't think Stone gives a rats ass what the "I'm disappointed with Bush but..." fools here think. In fact when JFK was released he was in Europe so he didn't have to listen to the usual regurgitated so-called "conservative" (as if there still is such a thing) rhetoric. Long Live Stone!!!

[decentwriter]

Is this script some kind of a friggin joke?

[Tom Parker]

The movie will, of course be a big hit. Too bad it wasn't out before the last election, but you can't have everything. Looking forward to seeing even more idiocy from Dubya and the gang. Jeez, you just have to wonder, how bad do things HAVE to get before people realize the right wing-nuts screwed up again?

[Matthew]

I doubt this is from the real script. The dialogue is pitiful. This has to be some kind of joke. I expected it to be bad, but... wow.

[John]

This movie is only gonna continue the downward spiral that Hollywood is currently in right now. If you wanna know how well this film is gonna do at the box office, just look at how well "Shut Up and Sing" was received when it came out. Congrats Stone, you managed to kill any goodwill that you may have gotten with World Trade Center. Maybe you should go back to doing blow like you did when you wrote Scarface. That's the only film that you wrote that I can even stomach seeing without wanting to kick my television. Maybe if you're under the influence of cocaine you can focus on entertaining us and not giving us your half-*ssed view of our current, or former Presidents.

[Peter Griffin]

Seven out of ten people now agree, Bush is a mess, and he's certainly gotten the country into one. But you know, you gotta blame the people that voted for him. I hope they're grinding their teeth every time they have to pay $50.00 to fill up the family car.

[Boner]

Take a good look at Oliver's photo above. Doesn't he look like he enjoys putting things in his rectum?

[ken mulligan]

It's Hollywood. Agenda trumps box office success. At least it will until the production companies are broke. As the lib news media loses viewers and readers so will Hollywood. Then some right wing wacko nut will come in and do something stupid like make movies that are positive and show pride in America. When that happens all you liberals can boycott the wacko for raking in excessive profits. Everyone knows Oliver Stone's specialty has become fairy tales for the fringe.

[Madalyn Fiennes]

I doubt if he cares too much about the opinion of people who watch his movies for free two years later on TV.
No matter. The Republicans have screwed themselves for at least the next eight years. There's no way in hell that any of them are going to win an election any time soon. The economy is in the toilet, world opinion of the U.S. is at an all time low, jobs are continuing to disappear, the national debt has skyrocketed, and people are generally just in a dour mood. Now if the FCC would just bring back the Equal-Time rule, you could have some balance on the public airwaves, instead of leaving it all to these hate radio propagandists on AM radio 24 hours a day.

[PJ]

This is the beauty of capitalism.

Oliver Stone and his investors are free to throw their money away if it makes them feel good.

We are free not to waste our money on this film.

Politically, if anything, this will hurt Obama or Hillary, whoever is the candidate, even though they had nothing to do with it. With 'friends' like Oliver Stone they won't need Republican enemies...

[NW Boilermaker]

Let's put aside the politics for a moment. One thing we all know is that we Americans like movies. But, we like good movies. If you are going to try to pull off an "insider's look" type movie, we like them to be well researched and insightful. That first page must have been a joke. It was more like that Saturday Night Live bit with Will Ferrell and others talking about Bill Brasky...except that was funny. This is ridiculous. Oliver may be past any prime he had.

[Frank Howett]

Yeah, that's right. Its a plot, an agenda. That's what the Motion picture companies are interested in. They don't care about box office, or profits.
And those liberal news outfits like ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, wait that's all of them (FOX doesn't count as news). They just want to put their liberal agenda out there too. That makes perfect sense, since all of the major networks are owned and controlled by large corporations.
And we all know how notoriously liberal those large corporations are.

[Heckuva Job Brownie]

Is it January 2009 yet?

[JFK]

When is this maggot going to tell the story of the clinton white house? talk about fit for hollywood - just the part about the girl the age of his daughter that was also his employee getting shagged with a cigar - how can hollywood resist that? Oh, yeah, I forgot, birds of a feather, Cant put down your own kind.

[Corelle]

Yeah, peter griffin, i bet u grit your teeth every time you pay somebody $50.00 to put their weewee up your behind.

[Jim Carolus]

Joe McCarthy had it right, huh CW2 Bhawk pilot? With paranoid fanatics like you dropping bombs it's no wonder we're getting our asses handed to us in the Middle East. By the way, what with the crucial importance of the mission and everything, how'd you find the time to read Ann Coulter? AWW man!! Dude, like, you just told libs to kiss your ass...that's just RAW!! You're on Fiyah!! And then, when all the butt-kisses have been applied, just drop an "elitist" on 'em, and BASK in your status as one of the "lesser members" of our society! Hey, YOU SAID IT, not me!! But I agree with you 100%! That's why you, and your clearly misguided unit, support the worst President since the 1970's...after all, isn't stupidity the "elitist"-enforced malady of the underclass? Those dern elitists are the reason you're so stupid! Thanks for clearing that up! Hey, I've got a great idea...after the Republicans lose in November and the war ends, maybe you and your unit can fly in a few hundred thousand pro-Bush Iraqis/Afghanistanies to vote for the Republican candidate in 2012. Something tells me, they'll need 'em!!

[DaveS]

Political sensibilities be damned... if that first 4 pages is reflective of the quality of the rest of the screenplay, it's one gigantic box office turd waiting to happen.

[Phyllis Weatley]

So because YOU don't like the way Dubya is portrayed, it has to be poorly researched?
We ARE talking about the man who almost choked himself to death on a pretzel watching a football game, after all.

[Obama/Casey=Hot]

Uhh . . this is not about a movie about W. It's called slight of hand and I'm betting it's gonna work on 70% of the American public.

[john]

poem A FEW GOOD MEN
MY LITTLE BOY WOULD WATCH THE TV SHOW ALL THE WAY TO THE END JUST TO SEE THE AD FOR"A FEW GOOD MEN
IN OUR TOWN WE HAD A PARADE TO HONOR THE TROOPS WITH A BAND AND A SQUAD OF A FEW GOOD MEN
MY LITTLE BOY WOULD STAND TALL AND SALUTE AS THEY CAME BY WITH A LITTLE TEAR IN HIS EYE. HE WOULD SAY,"MOM,SOME DAY CAN I BE ONE OF THOSE MEN
THE KIDS WOULD COME TO OUR HOUSE TO PLAY AND WOULD ALWAYS PLAY US AGAINST THEM WITH "A FEW GOOD MEN".
THAT SAD DAY IN SEPTEMBER, I DO REMEMBER. MY BIG BOY AND HIS BEST FRIEND,BEN,CAME TO THE HOUSE THAT DAY. HE SAID,"MOM,OUR COUNTRY NEEDS US. THEY NEED A FEW GOOD MEN.
WE LOST BEN LAST YEAR.MY SON SAID HE DREW ENEMY FIRE TO PROTECT A FEW OF HIS MEN
SOME BIG WIGS BACK HOME SAY WE ARE LOSING AND CANT WIN.
I WISH THEY WOULD GO OVER THERE AND TELL THAT TO THOSE "GOOD MEN".
JOHN DENTON

[Edna Ward Lanier]

Although by some mental deficiency, conservatives don't seem to be able to grasp this, but Clinton was one of the most popular presidents this country has had in the past 25 years. Under his administration the national debt was being paid down, the government was operating with a surplus, the stock market was booming, the US wasn't involved in an unwinnable 7 year war predicated on lies, and gasoline was about $1.25 a gallon.

[Frank Disher]

And once again, the war in Iraq is somehow "connected" to 9/11.
I think we've pretty much found out since then that this was yet another lie offered up to a lazy, non thinking public.

[john]

If Clinton was that popular never did he get over 50% of the vote, can you say Ross Perot. as for prosperity Clinton just happened to be in office when the dot com age came to be,he couldnt even screw that up.

[Ray]

Yet another American audience flop destined to become fuel for the foreign "I hate the USA" crowd. Thanks Ollie for bringing more enemies of the USA :/

[Gwenn]

Boring!!!Sick of watching anything about Bush. I wonder whether it is because Hollywood has too much money and not enough projects that they decided to find a way to throw their money away. Their choice, I guess. I have only 2 words for them though "MOVE ON".

[Luther Utt]

May be time to look for a part time job. Those gas prices look to be heading in the $4.00+ a gal. range pretty soon. It won't take long to burn up that "W" tax rebate/economic stimulus/bribe at those prices. Maybe time to sell junky old gas hog Chevy, and buy shiny new Kia.

[Martha]

The fact that the majority of Americans voted for Bush TWICE makes Americans the dumbest, most ignorant, most violent assholes on the planet. The fact that the US dollar is now worth little more than the peso is a case of karmic retribution. Oliver Stone hasn't made a good movie since Salvador. It's hilarious to watch the value of LA real estate piss itself down the toilet - fuck Hollywood.

[Frank]

When America watches Bush, it's looking into a mirror.

[Lornica Moronski]

WOW, EDNA Ward Lanier what a great recommendation for bubba "ONE of the most popular presidents this country has had in the past 25 years". WOW. Let's see, that includes 1, 2, 3, 4 WOW, FOUR whole presidents and billy boy is one of the most popular!
Definitely behind Reagan, no one can dispute that. SO that means bubba might be more popular than the Bushes? Gee, that's great. I really respect him now. Fucking child molester that he is. Oh, and he's a racist too - just ask obama. He's also a convicted and disbarred perjuror, an accused (two or 3 times, I lost count) rapist, a pot smoker who wont admit it, a womanizer, a sexist, ... shall I go on? Your fucking hero, Edna. Care to get screwed with a cigar tonite to get a little closer to big bill?

[Earl]

"Lornica" -- wipe the coke off your keyboard -- you have to be up early in the morning to clean my yard.

[Stoneisacokehead]

Yo Stone: Haven't you got better things to do than read the comments on this blog? Why don't you explain how those cocaine possession charges were dropped when you agreed to make World Trade Center?

[Chris Sykes]

Oliver Stone is good at taking creative license with historical events. Oliver Stone's "JFK" was the biggest collaboration of lies and made up events I have ever seen. Everybody needs to watch the history channel's "The Kennedy Assassination" they debunk all of Stone's bull-crap. This movie will bomb like the others. Most people don't want to hear about how bad their president and country are, all the time. Oliver Stone is a loser, why does he feel the need to make a movie about bush? Sounds like he has a crush on him. I wouldn't spend a minute thinking about people who don't like me. This movie won't change a single thing; Bush will still run rings around the dems in the house and senate. For a guy who's supposed to be as smart as a bent nail, he sure gets what he wants out of the "intellectuals" democrats. Your taxes haven't gone up and your internet hasn't gone down. I love America!

[Jim]

It's a movie people. Created from a script made up in someone's imagination about -- about -- real events. It's not a documentary for Pete's sake. Grow up!

[gymlock]

I'd much rather see Monica on her knees under his desk while Clinton talks on the phone in the Oval Office! It would be a great crime story to see how he ended up there after instances of rape, sexual improprieties, and generally being a scoundrel to make it to that place. That would make a great final scene... or maybe it could be where Stone shows felons buying their Presidential pardons from Clinton. There's so much more interesting material in the Clinton years.....

[Andy Brown]

While I LOVED Natural Born Killers, since then Stone's movies have missed the mark...none have been overly original, none have been overly controversial, and none have been as artistically creative nor informative as NBK and that was 14 years ago! PLEASE, Mr. Stone make a movie that makes WAVES, tells the TRUTH, and pisses people off! Something ORIGINAL, something REAL! This carbon copy of a carbon copy of a carbon copy of hatred (or disliking at minimum) for the president is as played out as the Geico Cavemen spots...If ya need help, email me at:

andybrown2007@yahoo.com

[phil]

let it be! W and his supporters will invest tens of millions to rewrite history (he mill have the largest and most expensive presidential library.) Oliver Stone's "W" will be closer to the truth then the crap that will be in the history books in 20 years. Look at what happened to Reagan, even with the bad economy high unemployment we have been brainwashed into thinking that he was better then he was. He is even given credit for the fall of the USSR! (happened under Bush the elder. We need to remind people that Bush is the worst pres of all time or our grand kids will be going to W High School.

[phil]

jim.....your a fool

[JUST A NORMAL AMERICAN]

SHAME ON OLIVER STONE FOR MAKING THIS LIBERAL TRASH, AND SHAME ON THE HOLLYWOOD LIBERALS WHO GIVE HIM THE MONEY. BUSH IS AN HONORABLE CHRISTIAN MAN WHO DOESN'T DESERVE THIS POOR TREATMENT AT THE HANDS OF THE LIMOUSINE LIBERALS LIKE THE FAT MICHAEL MOORE.

I WOULD DRINK A GALLON OF BUSH'S SPERM.

[phil]

one more thing...the title should be "Incompetent" not "W"

[phil]

NORMAL enjoy your drink, he already made you eat his escrament for 7 years, guess you need to wash it down

[JUST A NORMAL AMERICAN]

WHATEVER "DOCTOR" PHIL, OR SHOULD WE CALL YOU "BUTT DOCTOR" PHIL AKA "THE PROCTOLOJIST," SO FOCUSED ON THE EXCREMENT OF BUSH THAT YOU CAN'T TASTE THE WASTE FROM HIS BALLS. I LOVE BUSH!!! I WISH HE WAS A SINGLE MAN AND COULD GO ON DATES.

PS I'M A MAN.

[Ed]

Oliver, please do a movie about Billy getting head from Monica while Hillary was in another part of the white house working on universal healthcare. Oh, and a warm holiday scene featuring staffers doing fat lines of coke would also be precious. You could show Bill playing the sax in one scene and dropping 'trou' to another female victim showing her just how much of a black president he is. Oh, and you can show a young bearded Clinton avoiding the draft in England and not inhaling
pot at an all night party, but just merely putting a bong up to his lips and 'pretending to inhale'. Oh, and be sure to include shots of Bill biting his lip. He looks so precious when he does that. You should throw in some fun shenanigans about his brother to add a little humor. I think that Billy and Hilly would make W and Laura seem downright boring and brilliant. If you chose
to make a movie about Bill at least
you'd make some money. And, only you have the gravitas and courage to finally show the world what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

[JUST A NORMAL AMERICAN]

ED YOU ARE TOO FOCUSED ON CLINTON'S PENIS AND NOT FOCUSED ENOUGH ON THE PENIS THAT'S IN THE WHITE HOUSE NOW. STOP CHEATING ON OUR GLORIOUS LEADER.

[Cheech]

Wow. I'm amazed ol' "Ollie" Stone got his lips off the bong and his nose out of the white powder long enough to even write a script!

[StiffArm]

You...have...got...to be...joking.

That is the worst writing I've seen since a buddy asked me to read his "script"...in high school. And this is worse. If this is serious, than the writer deserves to be laughed out of the industry. What a f*cking joke.

[Gabe Ramis]

Oliver Stone can't seem to get enough of his new found "God", so he's making a movie about him, "W". Mr. Stone dreams about "W" so much, you can see he can't get enough of his manhood. I suggest to Mr. Oliver Stone to find the nearest toilet, put your head in it, and flush yourself all the way to China.

[Mike]

This is going to be a wonderful movie. Oliver Stone is an amazing director and I am very excited to see the true story of W. This is truely something worth looking forward to!

[GOP leader]

Great script. Should be an excellent film. Drudge recommends it and so do I.

[twin_peaks_nikki]

I get so bitter and angry when I read about people trying to bash those who bash George Bush. There are many angry, bitter leftists -- people like me who read firedoglake and are secure in their gender identity -- that understand the Internet is the ways and means that the reality based community can get our collective angry rhetoric heard. We are becoming a power to deal with on the Internet.

[Ben]

I love his conspiracy flicks. Does he reveal who removed the "W" keys from all the computers when Clinton staff trashed the White House?

[Aric]

Hmmm, let's see. A movie by a far-left Hollywood producer about a Republican president!! Yeah, I wonder if there will be just a little bias?

[Mike]

Wow, I really hope Oliver has a better grasp on political planning than this totally inane dialog. I'm starting to think hes just plain ignorant by painting such pictures. Either that or he knows how stupid it is and his only objective is to propagandize other stupid people. Doesn't seem right either way you spin it. If anything he just demonstrates that he needs psychiatric help.

[anne]

Is this a serious thought to make this movie? Why would I want to see a movie about Bush when I am SO TIRED of seeing him for the past 8 YEARS!!!! Glad to be rid of him in January. Would not go to see him in a movie and have to sit through 2 MORE HOURS of seeing GW Bush.

This is got to be the biggest flop in all of movie making. Get someone who is just a little more inspiring the George. I would even go to see a movie about his dad instead of junior.

[Toasted Turbins]

Here's the Truth Guy's:

Bush is hated because he is a Christian.
He is pro life.
He is Pro traditional marraige.
He nominated strict constitutionalist judges.
He believes you should work for what you get.

Liberals knew they could not let him be seen as a hero in a war even if it benefited the USA.
For that reason they, as the traitors they are, did everything through their outlets of influence: liberal press, movies and political repetative lies to miminize the good President Bush has done and emphasize his errors. They went as far as to prevent our troops from having their votes counted in both Bush elections.
They caused him to be blamed for Katrina when it was a Democrat Governor in charge of the national guard in that state and a Democrat Mayor who both showed their incompetance. The only thing he did not do correctly was recognize their stupidity soon enough. More likely he gave them a chance to get it right. They failed not him.
Here is the final truth that is NEVER spoken of. Islam hates us not because we love freedom. They hate us because we support Isreal, but mostly they see the character of our once Christian and honorable nation become the Hollywood Values nation. They hate us for our PERVERSION; the Brittnay Spears Madonna kiss, Gay promoting tv shows and laws, the way we slut out our former Mouskateers ect.
They must protect the world from spread of the social disease of Liberalism which has infected this nation and will kill others if not stamped out. They are trying to sheild the eyes of their children from us thanks to Godless LIbralism lest Alah judge them for their inaction.
The only good news I can see is that weakness breeds war. That means that the pervert, pansie ass, cowards will one day HAVE to fight for their lives. Nothing would make me happier than thousands of liberals in a fox holes, sh*tting their pants wishing they had a God who they could ask for help, knowing finally that they face hell next where the sum of the lies they have told and evil they have done will cause them to be tormented for EVER and EVER without end. Bush is a man's man. They are unfit to polish his shoes. Like Lincoln who was hated, he will be seen for the great president he was dispite the lies of the cowardly, greedy, perverted, Godless Democrats.

[Joanne]

After seeing Stone's JFK movie, I realized the man had too much going on in his head that had nothing to do with the facts. I cringe at the thought that people who see his schlock films will think there is an iota of fact in them. If Sinclair Lewis hadn't thought up Alice in Wonderland, Stone would have.

[Rick]

Well, sad to see such a skewed script of every steriotypical characture in the liberal mindset concerning this administration. Got lots of quarrels with W, but the pueril opening script is a shame. It gives a look into Stone's "girly-man" view of the world. Stone has talent, but you wouldn't know it with this bomb.

[Andrew]

Wow! What a WEAK script!

[Andrew]

Wow! What a WEAK script!

[Randy]

Why doesn't he do something about JFK? This time with some facts.

[Michal Kuyel]

"""I doubt if he cares too much about the opinion of people who watch his movies for free two years later on TV. """

That's like 99 percent of the population, isn't it?

[Lou]

Oliver Stone is a moron!!!!!

What a moron.

[Lou]

Oliver Stone is a moron!!!!!

What a moron.

[dude]

Man, you americans are dim. especially the right-wingers. How ignorant do you have to be to see that this isn't the real script. haha. what a bunch of fools

[bridger]

Aren't they just supposed to make things with spaceships or cowboys or monsters. or something cool? That's what will make money I bet. All my friends like movies like that. This other stuff is like, well, dumb. Oh, and by the way, Stone couldn't find his ass in policy with both hands. Cowboy movies, yes sir, that will make money.

[JohnG]

I dont always agree with W but this type of polarizing brainwashing makes believe that the film industry is controlled by communist/pinko's. I can see why during a time of war they should be charged with teason. And the other day a CNN commentator accused this administration of civil rights violations like China. How dumb can you be as to compare our great nation that allows the freedom for such type of speech to China. CNN is really out there. Space cadets who smoke to much wacky.

[phil]

"He believes you should work for what you get." and give it to rich people take a look at the tax laws and the changes to them in the last 7 years. Toasted Turbins do you know what your talking about? Godless Democrats like who? Dr. King? JFK? Jimmy Carter? get your facts correct.
two great quotes.
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you (Matthew 7:12).”

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”

[Barney]

Was this script written by an eigth grader?

[richard e]

Predictably horrible. I'm already not going to see his next hit job on McCain.

[Jenny Bea]

One of these days, Hollywood will realize that the American public doesn't give a sh!t what they think about politics. Hollywood is too stupid to get real jobs, so that's why they ACT or MAKE STUFF UP for others to ACT. If people want to know about the president's life- they'll google it. If they want to know about the war or Iraq, they'll watch the news.

One of these days, the Hollyweirds are going to get that if they keep making comedies, they'll do fine. If they keep making political movies, their audiences are going to be those that idolize Michael Moore- which is only a handful of folks, by now.

Shut up and ACT. Stop trying to tell the public how to think. We'll make up our own minds. These people are like taking abortion advice from the pope. They have NO CLUE what they're talking about or doing and have no clue- like the politicians- what it's like to be a regular person, putting in their eight and going home to pay bills.

[Jenny Bea]

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”

God Bless you, sir. :-)

[Ed]

He's not writing this movie for American audiences. It will do OK here. F911 did pretty well too. But where Stone will make the mega bucks is overseas. He will win Cannes, the Toronto Film Festival, etc.

And that goes with all these anti-American movies. There is more money to be made internationally than domestically and so the movies are tailored for those audiences.

Hollywood may be populated by leftists, but they are smart leftists who know how to make money.

[Romicro]

"W"
Opening soon, using a white sheet hanging from a barn wall as the screen, just outside Crawford,TX.,home of "W", and visited frequently by celebreties such as Cindy Sheehan and not so freguently by other famous film makers like Michael Moore.

[Sal]

I like President Bush and I think he has done a terrific job. He has had to fight the terrorists, the NY Times and the Democrats who declared the war was lost. Talk about giving aid and comfort to the enemy. It is not an accident that we haven't had another 9-11 for the past 7 years. The hatred for him is sick.

[David]

The only thing that will be in the theatres watching this movie will be the crickets! If that is the opening dialog for the movie, something that is really supposed to pull you in, I can't even imagine what the dialog later in the movie is going to look like. This movie will be a sinking ship like most of the other "anti-Bush" themed movies about the Iraq war.

[verdad]

Personally i cannot wait for this moron to leave office. I know we will have to deal with a legacy of pain, incompetence and debt for generations, but once he is out, i never want to think about him again. Any movie about him will be be way to painful to watch.

[Mike Garcia]

The notion that Oliver Stone is fabricating material for his movie should not cause us to gasp in disbelief. That's what he's famous for. He's sort of a classy version of Michael Moore.

Oliver Stone is a great filmmaker. His movies may not be the best place to get our information, but that's not why we watch them. We watch them because they're truly entertaining.

[Chri]

I'm not much of a Bush fan, but I do like good movies. And if the script is any indication, this movie is going to be awful.

[jimbo]

Who would watch this anyway? I don't like the Clintons, but I wouldn't pay good money to see a 'documentary' about them. I would wait until it hit broadcast TV and maybe I'd watch it then. Unless there's something better on, like a Three's Company or TJ Hooker re-run.

[rpupkin77]

I really hope this is a fake. Though I doubt the real one will be much better. Except for the scene where Bush takes LSD and kills an Iraqi child with a baby Seal.

[Mark]

WOW, I truly do not understand some people. We live in the best country on this planet, and thank GOD that we are able to speak our minds. After reading most of the entries before this entry most of you would have been taken out and shoot in other countries.

Be thankful that you live in the USA. And as for some of you have said, NO ONE claims to be a Bush fan, well YOUR WRONG, I'm a fan of President Bush. If you people only knew that amount of attacks the US Government has stopped from happen you would not be so quick to call names.

I'm sadden by most of the entries on this blog, it's saddens me that you call yourself an American.

[uncadave]

Why do these Left Coast dim bulbs always seem to think that the rest of the country gives a rat's rotund patoot about what they think? And why is everything between New York and Los Angeles discarded as "fly-over country" until one of them decides to come out in favor of the latest Socialist candidate wannabe when suddenly it becomes known as "the heartland?"

Now, if you really want to do a flick about a filthy, corrupt presidency, I suggest you do one about Clinton. There's enough slish there to keep audiences riveted to their seats for two hours.

[Mr Obvious]

When GWB took office (and WJC left): China was getting ready to invade Taiwan, India and Pakistan were getting ready to launch nukes at each other, Terrorists were planing and training for what would become the worst terrorist attack in American history, some of our most advanced military technology had be given to China, Art had been stolen from the White House, Ws had been taken off all the keyboards, the CIA had not been talking; and, was refusing to talk to, the FBI, the US Military in Intelligence services had been downsized and force to do things that had hurt their strength and credibility, pardons were given to people who did not deserve them (and money is suspected to have changed hands), critical information known by the prior administration was not being fully shared with the new one.

If those conditions had been handed to either Clinton, the world would be in ashes by now.

O ya, and China's oil consumption increase is driving the price of oil up. The price of oil is both an inflationary and recessionary pressure.

The housing bubble caused increases in property taxes and mortgage payments. Again both inflationary and recessionary pressure.

Congress's inability to balance the budget has caused the national dept to go up. As a result the Dollar has fallen, causing oil, and gold, to go even higher. Gold has gone down recently. Thats a sign that the economy is starting to re-balance itself. The dept hasn't changed; but, reductions in the fed rate have helped. Also; productivity hasn't actually slowed down by as much as was expected.
If 5.5% unemployment is a recession, than whats it going to be when we recover in a few months? In most countries unemployment figures are much higher; and, they are not in recessions.
For most of us, the economic down turn is not changing the way we live our lives; and, it's not expected to. For the libs, it's just another way to bash GWB.

[foreign financing]

Stone's films aren't really financed out of Hollywood - they're foreign financed. This film will play very well overseas where anti-Bush sentiment runs high...that's the audience he's catering towards now...

[Kendal]

Having James Brolin portraying Bush will be as fair and accurate as if Gary Coleman was cast to play Pavarotti. What next, Babs to be Laura?

[Feed King]

Hey now! I went to DKE (Syracuse), and this script makes Dekes seem stupid. We weren't stupid - we were raving idiots! Unfortunately our plans for world domination were thwarted after our chapter was put on Double Secret Probation.

[Tackleberrylives]

Josh Brolin is playing W not James Brolin. Not a good script from the first few pages but keep in mind, it is an early draft and it was not written by Stone. Say what you want about Stone he is a heck of a writer/director and I am sure he will make this material work. I may not agree with all his films themes but they have never been boring. Also, Stone knew Bush at Yale. I saw Stone speak at a film workshop in early 2000 and he said that he remembered Bush from their Yale years, and that Bush was, in Stone's words "a nerd". Interesting.

[Douglas]

Can't wait to see this one, probably just a rental, wouldn't spend money in the theater. But I love how it's getting underneath all you right-wingers' skin. Love it.

[Stewing]

All Clinton did (besides selling out to the Chinese and shutting down the military) was figure out how to tax the dot com boom, and then it died. Every year he was in office, I owed money on top of what was taken out of my wages already. Since he has been gone, I have received some of MY money back every year.

What hollywood and the left doesn't seem to understand, is that Americans don't hate America like they do, and will not spend a dime on propaganda from the left. Why do you think all the left leaning news sources are laying people off every quarter, and that Air America needs Soros to meet payroll?

[Douglas]

I love how people like 'Stewing' just repeat the same America-hating propaganda over and over again - like a well trained dog.

[Phil]

Air America needs Soros to meet payroll? Fox news had losses for years and was heavily-funded Rupert Murdoch. PS Soros has not invested as much in to air America as mr. M has put in to FOX.
Or perhaps you prefer to talk about the Washington Times

[Radar in Va]

I hope the movie cost 100's of millions maybe a few billion. No one will go see it and Hollywood/Stone will be stuck with the bill. But then maybe with a lefty in the Whitehouse, the Dept of Ed will make is manditory for the students to see.

[Texas Tom]

I know, instead of a Bush bio why don't we just show gay porn. The "Bareback" section ought to tell us all we need to know -- about what's been happening to the nation at any rate

[dem4life]

For all the haters of this film out there, that keep bitching about it; your just making the case THAT much stronger for why it should be made! Stone has already won because he has you all talking about it! and I have a nice sneaking suspicion that all of you that hate it already (without seeing it, no less), are all Bush LOVERS...heehehhhe

[arlo]

Opening scene in the Oval Office. The dest is littered with multiple empty vodka bottles and Bush has lampshade on his head...

Bush (slurring): I've got a hankering to bomb some innocent women and children. Any ideash?

Joe Wilson: MR. PRESIDENT! We must comport ourselves with honor and integrity!
..........
Bush (near comatose and lying under his desk): Howsh the research coming along on steering hurricanes toward black people?

Dr. Strangelove: Ve vill soon be able to eliminate ze undesirables!
.............

Bush (swaying noticably while urinating in a potted plant): So Turdblossom...Are you really sure we're gonna get away with this WTC gig on 911?

Rove (chewing on a fresh puppy leg): YES! And the beauty of it is we'll be murdering mostly Democrats in a Blue State!
.............

I bet the ending will be predictable.

[Jim in Kansas]

CNN is pure escapism!

[ricardo maxwell]

What person in their right mind would throw away good money to view what is essentially PROPAGANDA? Does Oliver Stone think that he can rewrite history with his myopic inaccurate portrayals of historic figures?

[Bill]

I'm making a movie about Oliver Stone. I will portray him as a drug using alcohol crazed sexist animal abusing psycho but that would only increase his capital in Hollywood. I know what I'll do instead, I'll stay home and NOT pay to see his movie(s). Hollymood has an agenda and the world knows it, try something else next time rich boy we're on to your tactics.

[Jennifer]

I love it when Hollywood loses money. You go Oliver! All your trash sinks doesn't it? But if you want to push your political agenda with your own money and lose it, I'm all for it. Only the pathetically biased Leftwingers will view this film; it will be therapy for them as they lose another election. Meanwhile, Bush hatred is destroying your party.

[loachpilotcw4]

I think blackhawk pilot is a fake liberal waanbe who wouldn't know a collective from his A**!! No, GWB hasn't made all the right decisions, but show me a liberal who has..Jimmy Carter?,Bill Clinton??..go get in your K-car and keep on pretending,pal.

[Bill]

I'm making a movie about Oliver Stone. I will portray him as a drug using alcohol crazed sexist animal abusing psycho but that would only increase his capital in Hollywood. I know what I'll do instead, I'll stay home and NOT pay to see his movie(s). Hollymood has an agenda and the world knows it, try something else next time rich boy we're on to your tactics.

[Jennifer]

To Bill: What an excellent idea. A movie about Stone. I would paint him as a child rapist or something. I'm sure that's as valid as anything he claims about the President. I don't mind increasing his capital in Hollywood. The more he's out there the more we know what he is.

[Jennifer]

To Bill: What an excellent idea. A movie about Stone. I would paint him as a child rapist or something. I'm sure that's as valid as anything he claims about the President. I don't mind increasing his capital in Hollywood. The more he's out there the more we know what he is.

[Jennifer]

To Loachpilot: Two Democrat Presidents in the last 35 years and both disasters. Obama sounds like Jimmy Carter when it comes to his national security "policies." And Hillary is a walking disaster who can't stand firm on any of her "opinions." Maybe the country will require one more Dim Prez before it learns its lesson. In yesterday's hearing for Gen. Petraeous they really showed themselves for what they are. They are Oliver Stone's kinda people. That's clear!

Who's going to watch this sh't other than Koolaid drinking liberals?

I see it going straight to video,but I cant see a couple come in to Blockbuster and debate getting "W" or watch Terminator for the 300th time,if you're going to watch a phony movie..get the best one out there.

You want this for free..WATCH CNN EVERY DAY!

Ahhh,give it an Oscar,nominate Stony for a Nobel Peace prize,but if it doesn't have Bush bending Condalisa Rice over the