From porn star to First Lady.

[progressoid]

Elizabeth Banks to play Laura Bush in Oliver Stone movie

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Elizabeth Banks is going from the world of adult films to the White House.

The actress, who recently wrapped shooting Kevin Smith's comedy "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," is in final negotiations to portray first lady Laura Bush in "W," Oliver Stone's biopic on the life and presidency of George W. Bush.

Josh Brolin ("No Country For Old Men") already is on board to play the president. Shooting begins in late April in Shreveport, La.

Stone, who wrote the screenplay with his "Wall Street" collaborator Stanley Weiser, has said he plans to make "a fair, true portrait" of Bush, focusing on such areas as his relationship with his father, President George H.W. Bush, his wild youth, and his conversion to Christianity.

Banks, 34, starred in the three "Spider-Man" films, "Seabiscuit" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."

http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSN2541734620080326

[bryant69]

1. It's like they are announcing a train wreck a few years in advance

I'm really looking forward to this.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[DJ13]

2. Neither look anything like the Clintons

Is this serious movie, or a soap opera?

[Ghost in the Machine]

11. That might be a good thing, since the movie is about the Bushes...n/t

[shain from kane]

3. Who would pay money to see that piece of shit movie?

[onehandle]

4. His conversion to Christianity?

What New England Madrasa did smirk go to?

[bryant69]

7. Check out Molly Ivin's Bushwhacked - it was a mens bible study group in texas n/t

[onehandle]

8. But what was he before that?

Muslim? Scientologist? Atheist?

Jesus wants to know.

[bryant69]

15. Episcopalean i think? or he worshiped at the alter of alcohol.

[Mnemosyne]

21. Cult on Mexican/TX border. Cannot find any links, but remember when it happened

in 1981(?), iirc. A reporter from a San Francisco newspaper asked him about it before the 2000 Selection. * gave the strangest reply, "I'm not going to comment on something that may or may not have happened.". Odd huh? And * was still actually coherent at that time.

I saw it on the news just one time in 2000, found one link some time ago on my other comp., before the total meltdown, and have never been able to find it again. May try again tonight if time. I also recall seeing it on the news in the early 1980's when I lived in San Antonio. I was deeply into researching mass murderers, serial killers and cults back then, so it always has stuck in the back of my mind.

There was a massacre of a border cult, want to say in Matamorous, not sure, and Poppy was fighting a sheriff trying to investigate the massacre of the cult members (* was reported as living there at the time). * came wandering in when the situation was found and reported. * claimed he had no clue where he had been for three days.

Poppy got the investigation shut down as he was current VP, as if he couldn't have managed it anyway.

I'm sure someone will flame me as I have no link anymore, but I distinctly remember it, in the 1980's and in 2000.

Distinctly.

[shain from kane]

5. Bush* should be played by the killer, Javier Bardem.

[DS1]

6. Can't Kevin Smith stop making movies?

Also, can't Kevin Smith stop moderating QA sessions at Comic-Con?

[progressoid]

10. I think he's still 17 .

I wish he would stop making movies. :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

[NJSecularist]

9. If they wanted a porn star to be a first lady, couldn't they have just hired Nancy Reagan? n/t

[progressoid]

13. Eww.

The BJ queen of Hollywood.

[Dhalgren]

12. What was Banks' "starring" role in the "Spider-Man" movies? I can't

place her in any "starring" role? :shrug:

[progressoid]

14. Not a starring role.

Somebody called Betty Brant.

http://imdb.com/name/nm0006969/

[maxsolomon]

16. who's bankrolling this?

once Jan 19, 2009 has passed, no one, NO ONE, will want to see, hear, or think about GWB or his wife, his mom, his dad, his kids, his pig ranch, his VP, his PNAC enablers, his work wife, or his scottish terrier EVER AGAIN!

save your studio money & don't fund this pointless folly by this over the hill egoiste.

[NV Whino]

17. I dunno, but I think Barney's okay.

[shain from kane]

18. You can't watch 2 hours of Barney, unless he's pissing on Bush*'s leg.

[NV Whino]

19. Maybe they'll use documentary footage for that.

[shain from kane]

20. Let's have an avant garde film by Yoko Ono of everybody pissing on Bush*'s leg.

[NV Whino]

23. I like it.

[progressoid]

24. You couldn't pay me to see it.

With Oliver Stone directing, Repubs may not want to see it either.

[Contrary1]

22. Featuring Jason Alexander as Karl Rove...

Add your own supporting cast.