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Stone back to his roots

  • 18-04-2008 10:32am
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    Stone is Directing a Biopic of George W Bush called "W". production starting now, great cast including an irishman as Bush Senior!

    Something tells me stone got back in with the right people when he made World Trade Centre. He once said that after wall street, platoon, born on the 4th he had carte blanche to make whatever movie he wanted at any price - thats why he did JFK at the time.

    If he can reproduce the quality of JFK and Nixon it should be memorable


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    Pigman II
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    From 85 to 91 (with the exception of The Doors) everything Stone made was pure gold. Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, Talk Radio, Born on the Fourth of July and JFK are all 10/10 in my book. His stuff since then has been a mixed bag (Nixon and Any Given Sunday are the only high points for me) but unlike a lot of directors who start off great early and then turn to **** for the rest of their careers I really think Stone has many more classic movies still in him.


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    Sam Vimes
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    great cast including an irishman as Bush Senior!

    according to imdb, james cromwell is bush senior. he's not irish :confused:


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    Sam Vimes wrote: »
    according to imdb, james cromwell is bush senior. he's not irish :confused:

    my mistake, always thought he was born in dublin


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    Nolanger
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    Anyone else seen The Hand?


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    Sad Professor
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    Nolanger wrote: »
    Anyone else seen The Hand?
    With Michael Caine? No, but I've always wanted to, missed it the last time it was on tv. Stone never talks about it though and considers Salvador his first real film as director.

    I love Stone and while I'm glad to see he's getting back to the political stuff I think it's far too soon for a movie about Bush. But I assume it's due out in January to coincide/cash-in on his leaving office. Mind you Stone's always taken advantage of market forces in getting his films made. Nixon came out shortly after his death, NBK during the Tarantino craze in the 90s and Born on the Fourth during the renewed interest (started by Platoon) in the Vietnam War in the 80s.

    It seemed though after Nixon that Stone's reputation had been so thoroughly destroyed by the American media that his days as a controversial filmmaker were over. Since then all of his more interesting projects (MLK, Jawbreaker) have been shot down. The unmitigated disaster of Alexander can't have helped him either. But I guess Bush's current (lack of) popularity made it an easy film to get made.

    He was prepping a film about My Lai before the strike, hopefully he'll get back to that.


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    Nolanger wrote: »
    Anyone else seen The Hand?



    Yeah I liked the hand, think he did a good job on something that could really have been a farce! Salvador was the first he got a real budget for.

    An interesing story on Salvador is that they wrote a dummy script for the army making them look good, so the army agreed to let him film them etc for free on the basis that they would come out of it well. Nice way to save budget! James Woods also apparently hit stone on the set said he was quitting and walked off into the desert. A few hours later after he'd got lost he came back tale between legs and finished the movie!


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