Fair Game - Extended Clip (Plame movie previewing in Cannes)

[babylonsister]

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/cannes-do-first-clip-plamecia-leak-film-emerges

Cannes Do: First Clip from Plame/CIA Leak Film Emerges
Greg Mitchell
May 12, 2010


The upcoming Hollywood version of the CIA leak case, based on memoirs by Valerie Plame and husband Joseph Wilson, will be screened at the Cannes film festival, which has just opened, as the only American film in competition. We previewed Fair Game last week, based on "leaks" from director Doug Liman. Now the first clip from the film (see below) has been released.

It finds the couple--Naomi Watts and Sean Penn--in a playground with their kids running about, as Penn angrily confronts his wife over what he has just learned: that she may have written something that got him "sent" to Africa on that famous uranium fact-seeking mission related to Iraq WMD.

In the scene, she denies that she did that as he claims that if this gets out his career is ruined, and asks her to speak out. She suggests that maybe he did not think of his family first when he wrote that New York Times op-ed that drew so much attention (from Dick Cheney, of course). Anyway, the clip is all Penn and Watts (who co-starred last in 21 Grams), but the rest of the movie is reportedly much more dynamic, with intrigue, a trip to Iraq, and Cheney resembling the shark from Jaws--evil but underwater, as Liman put it.

[Frustratedlady]

1. Great casting.

I would love to see it.

[babylonsister]

2. I imagine it will make it here eventually and stir a lot of conversation. nt

[Merlot]

3. am having some trouble with Sean Penn as Joe Wilson

Looks like a pretty good movie. Hopefully it gets American distribution. Remember, this is the country that couldn't find a distributor for the movie about Darwin (another movie I really would like to see).

Naomi looks to be a good Valerie.

[mmonk]

7. The last time I checked, Summit was bidding on it.

If so, it will be shown here.

[mmonk]

8. Here you go.

Summit Plays "Fair Game"

We told you a week ago that Summit would walk away with "Fair Game," the Sean Penn movie about the Joe Wilson-Valerie Plame affair that plays the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. Now they have, acquiring rights in several global territories as well as North America.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/04/summit-fair-game.html

[Merlot]

9. thanks - I can look forward to seeing it!

[mmonk]

4. Yes. Thanks for posting.

My fear is the nation will ignore the movie as it "moves forward". I hope that is not the case.

[babylonsister]

5. I think Sean Penn will bring a good amount of curiosity to

the subject matter. It took decades to make 'Milk', but people did see it.

[mmonk]

6. I hope so.

I would like to see a national discussion on the matter rather than it remain a under the rug matter. If anyone can bring that out, it could be Penn.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. I LOVED Cindy Crawford in this.

Oh wait...

[activa8tr]

11. K+R Looks like a movie we would all like to see

I wonder who plays Cheney.