Jul 28 2008
Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men

Josh Brolin Talks W “The Other Stuff Isn’t a Story.. ” + Trailer

When I heard Oliver Stone was directing the George Bush biopic W all I could imagine was a comedy sketch stretched 2 1/2 hours long or an extended Farenheit 9/11 part deuce. Flipping through Moviemaker magazine over the weekend, I came across a Josh Brolin interview; apparently he had the same idea and turned the starring role down.

Once Brolin gave the script a look, he found it was deeper than the expected hack job.

Josh Brolin as George Bush

“First and foremost, I love the script. I was very against it at first and told Oliver, ‘Absolutely not. It’s insane.’ I just figured Oliver had a major agenda. but then I read the script, and the script is basically following the fluctuations of this guy’s life. I felt for him and I hated him. I had empathy for him and sympathy for him.. and I wanted to squash him.
I felt everything you do for characters in any great drama. And I said, ‘This is interesting. People don’t know this.’

It’s not necessarily saying anything, but the fact that this is a guy who basically failed at everything, who was seen as the black sheep of his family and turned around, got his life together and beat - if you can do such a thing - alcoholism. He re-found Christianity on a much deeper level, which gave him a conviction like we haven’t seen in anybody except maybe for dictators in the Far East or the Middle East, and he became President of the United States.

Wow. That is a story.

The other stuff isn’t a story - the other stuff is redundant.

If you did a thing about post 9/11, why he went to war, oil, money - if that were the confines of the story, it’s redundant. Or if you do it tongue in cheek, you can see that on Saturday Night Live. To me, it’s following him from 20 years old to 55 years old. Regardless of how you feel about him, it’s a fascinating story.”

The trailer popped online yesterday..

W

I’ll definitely check this out. It’s the young Bush fucking up, to re-up, only to fuck up again that makes it worth 12.


☼ What's Your Opinion? ☼

1 movie fan Fri, Oct 24, 2008 - 6:37 pm

Josh Brolin did a convincing Dubya, though he reminded me a lot of his cowboy character from No Country for Old Men<a href=“http://www.kogmedia.com”>...</a> over all, i don’t doubt that ‘W.’ will have the effect Oliver Stone desired

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