Casting The Last Eight Years
By Nicole Belle Thursday May 22, 2008 2:20pmOliver Stone's latest project is "W" all about the the life and presidency of George W. Bush.
We have some of the preliminary casting choices and it looks like Stone is being very, very kind to the Bushies.
Josh Brolin as Dubya Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush
So naturally, it begs the question, if you were Stone's casting director, who would you choose to play the various characters?
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At which grade schools are they looking for writers?
George W. Bush = Robert Downey Jr.
wooden puppets on strings
Casting: For Bush, a turd. For Laura, a mannequin.
fiver @ 1:
I have a 2nd grader that could write Chimpys lines.
Alfred E. Newman as GW and John Waters as Laura.
Aw hell cast John Waters as both.
Do they show caskets in the movie?
Mr Hankey - bushit, I agree about the mannequin for laurie.
ferrofluid @ 5:
I know a 2nd grader that writes the books that Chimpy reads.
CGI models articulated by the Gollum actor.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowicz...easy...War, Famine, Pestilence and Death; not necesarily in that order.
William H. Macy as Bush (only because Charles Nelson Reilly is no longer with us)
Amy Sedaris as Laura
With regard to W:
Laura's a tough one but maybe Dana Carvey as the Church Lady.
I know it would be hard for loyal bushies to watch the movie and not think "There's the guy who played his father... and now he's playing his wife? What's going on?"
And for Bush: Is the orangutan from "Any Which Way But Loose" still alive?
using real actors is a bad move, it adds a touch of humanity to Bushco which isnt there in RL.
from what i keep reading it's a satire and i hate brolin but the pic on entertainment weekly changed my mind. i want to see where stone takes it.
i wish fictional characters counted:
bush = zoolander. or if not him, ben stiller in the same role.
laura = one of the stepford wives. or, Allison Janney in the same role as she had in American Beauty. Minus the whole being-married-to-a-war-hero part, naturally.
Charles Manson and Tammy Faye Bakkker ?
I don't know about casting, but I did the poster for the movie a few months ago.
Oliver Stoned's "Bush"
From a Souse to the White House
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Bush: Steve Buscemi
Laura: Anna Nicole Smith (just dig her up)
That dickish older brother from Wonder Years could rock Bush.
Brolin is way too kind to Bush, but Banks for Laura is off the charts. Even with aging makeup, good grief.
W= any chimp of course, can they train a chimp to act dumbed down?
Laura = a glazed dougnut
Keanu Reeves as W., Rosie O'donnel as Babs.
For George W. Bush, Loulis the chimpanzee. Like GW, Loulis only gets the job because he's the son of someone famous.
For Laura Bush, Martha Stewart.
For the 1986 Betty Crocker, Laura Bush.
For Barbara Bush, the 1936 Betty Crocker.
Have Bush play himself. He's been acting like a president for 8 years now.
Foster Brooks as GW Chimp and Faye Dunaway as Laura ( reprising her role in Barfly ).
Goldfinger as Dick Cheny and Homer Simpson as Karl Rove. Barney as himself.
Clearly Javier Bardem for Bush and Imeld Marcos for Laura. She's dead? No problem, the corpse will suffice.
Bush? It's obvious, but William Ferrell--he's got the empty-headed stare down perfect.
Missing in Action:
Ollie Stone's COJONES
Robin Williams reprises his "Mrs. Doubtfire" role to play Babs "Beautiful Mind" Bush
"Helloooooooo!"
Why not just reissue that neat old cult film - "The Atomic Cafe" under the title "W".
George Washington as Babs.
Zippy the Pinhead, of course:
http://www.astronerdboy.com/comic-strips/images/toons/ZippyStillLife.jpg
Mister Bean as Dubbya, and any of the Fem-bots from the Bionic Woman as Pickles. Jenna and Not-Jenna can be played by Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie. Peter Boyle can play Dick Cheney.
Oh, for Laura, what about that woman from The View who kept getting into fights with Rosie O'Donnell?
at IMBD Synopsis for W. (2008)
George Bush - Will Ferrell
Laura Bush - Judi Dench
Barbara Bush - Jonathan Winters
Jenna Bush - Britney Spears
Too bad Jim Varney is deceased. Of course, having Ernest play the part of W. is type-casting.
I remember a "Boondocks" strip that portrayed George Bush and Dick Cheney as The Joker and Lex Luthor. If said DC villains were illegal, I'd cast them.
Sue @ 28:
and Ann Coulter as Laura B, she would do it if enough money was offered.
W4 @ 38:
...I meant "If said DC villains were real." @_@
If this was the 1940's, Jack Lemmon as George Bush, Milton Berle as Laura.
Satan and the Church Lady.
I don't care who are cast as the Monkey in Chief and his wife. As long as the movie is unflattering and insulting to our current disgrace for a president, I will be happy.
Steve Carell as Michael Scott playing Bush. Watching him nickname the furniture would be fun.
Throw in Dwight Schrute as vice-to-the-president.
Can't beat the mannequin for the first lady.
Anne Coulter as Dumbya and Fox's Deucy as Laura.
Tilda Swinton as Laura.
Timothy Bottoms as George (He did a great job once, lets see him do it in a drama).
Elizabeth Banks, magna cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
Good choice.
Steaming pile of dog shit - GWB
Steaming pile of cow shit - Laura
A chimpanzee for George.
dennis @ 47:
She did WHAT in college ?!?!?!?!
On a side note, who the f*ck is going to pay a dime to watch this crap movie?
Who's the audience??? The 28% who still think Chimpy is doing a swell job???
Here's a Site with some clippings of the script.
Coco the Monkey and Amy Whinehouse.
The Truth Hurts @ 51:
Hey now! You don't even know what the slant will be. I mean, this is written by the same guy who did Wall Street!
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He also wrote "Rudy: The Rudy Guiliani Story"... yeah, nevermind.
I don't know about the rest, but the kid who wanted a bb gun in "The Christmas story" could play Karl Rove. He should be about old enough by now. Every time I see Rove his face reminds me of that kid.
As for Laura just a cardboard cutout should be enough. It wouldn't take much of an actor to play bush. The part calls for someone screwing up all his words and following, the actor who plays cheney, directions.
Willford Brimley (sp?) could play cheney.
GWB - Chupacabra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra )
Laura - Julia, Winston's lover from 1984
There is no way this can be done well. Stone doesn't have ... well, ..... stones enough to put this together to portray our Goon of State as he really is.
This actually pisses me off because it may give the shot-head who ruined America a false feeling of importance.
Alfred E Newman as W.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 57:
Speaking of casting, I saw Kevin Spacey on "Charlie Rose" last night. He is in the new HBO movie "Recount". It's about the Bush-Gore Florida recount in 2000. He related that he'd read in one of the Florida papers that Kathryn Harris was perplexed when Laura Dern was cast to play her in "Recount". Apparently Kathryn, a brunette, couldn't understand how she could be played on film by a blonde actress (Dern).
Bush would be a sock puppet on Dick Cheney's hand. Cheney played by Burgess Meredith, of course.
Laura Bush would be played by Bette Davis from "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
George W. Bush--Keanu Reeves
Laura Bush--Molly Shannon
Bush Twins--Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
Dick Cheney--Mickey Rooney
Lynne Cheney--Phyllis Diller
Karl Rove--John Lithgow
Donald Rumsfeld--Bob Barker
Condi Rice--Angela Bassett
Remember the girl in the beauty contest who talked about maps "and such as". If she isn't busy, she could play Laura. Okay they would have to dumb the girl down a bit but I think she could pull it off.
here is who should play them:
chimp = corpse of Mussolini
Xanax babe = corpse of Mussolini' mistress
joeedugan @ 60:
This is one of the few times I wish we had HBO. I would love to see this movie.
Gilligan as W, C. Montgomery Burns as Cheney, and any woman with no soul, vacant eyes and too much makeup (preferably someone who looks like she would be a mean bitch) for the first lady. But the combustible combination twice in the same decade might cause a rift in the good-evil continuum.
Jack Nicholson could don a wig and reprise his Joker role from the first Burton Bat-Man movie.
http://weblog.timoregan.com/2005/03/laura-bush-admits-shes-actually-joke...
here is who should play them:
chimp = corpse of Mussolini
Xanax babe = corpse of Mussolini' mistress
Sid Haig and Karen Black
...White House of 4000 Corpses
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF5Kdm4Eu6w
Lone Rogue @ 54:
That's fine, but whether it praises Chimpy...or slams him....why would you invest 2 hours of your life to see this flick???
I just want that worthless skidmark to disappear....I don't need to see his "story" on a 30 foot screen.
Besides, what's the story anyway??? Spoiled, slow-witted boy grows up to be a failure in school and business, and uses his Daddy's connections to get everything he wants.
There, I just saved you $10 and 2 hours.
And Richard Dreyfus will be playing Dick Cheney.
No need to cast this movie as it has already been made....I believe it was called " The Three Stooges" Take your pick as to who is which character.....
The only way I would pay to see Stone's movie is if Johnny Depp or George Clooney is in it.
My Choices:
Bush: Shia LaBouef
Laura: Parker Posey
Cheney: Gene Hackman
Rove: Jack Black
Now, I know LaBouef might be a controversial choice, but surrounded by good actors, no one does callow and out-of-his-league better.
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The Truth Hurts @ 71:
One could say the same about Hearst, but Welles did a good job with his life (through the character of Charles Kane).
Even evil, vile humans can have interesting stories. If someone took the Citizen Kane route, and just used a character obviously based on Bush, and went balls to the wall ripping him down? That could be incredible. I don't trust Stone anymore. He hasn't directed a truly good film since Natural Born Killers.
The Corky kid from that old sitcom should play Dubya. He'll need less phonetical assistance than the real Dubya.
George Bush - Randy Quaid
Laura Bush - Peggy Hill (from King of the Hill)
Richard Dreyfuss is in negotiations to be the Dark Lord of the Halliburton.
Nicole,
Thanks for posting this on a Friday afternoon in a week that is badly in need of comic relief.
Bummer! I don't even know who half the people you guys are suggesting are or even what they look like. I guess I should make an effort to watch more movies and learn more about the actors and actresses.
Owen Wilson as GWB
Reba as Laura
Jack Nicholson as Cheney
Dennis Hopper as Karl Rove
Soupy Sales or Professor Irwin Corey as Bush.
Marie Osmond as Laura Bush.
Foster Brooks as Dick Cheney.
Stubby Kaye as Karl Rove.
James Mason as John Ashcroft.
Cantinflas as Alberto Gonzales.
George Raft as Antonin Scalia.
Whoopi Goldberg as Condoleezza Rice.
i would choose the banjo player from deliverance to play bush.
The Truth Hurts @ 51:
The Same 1% of the population who watched Ben Stein's latest ID Flop.
Central Casting @ 78:
Oliver Stone: rewriting history, one movie at a time.
Oh, come on- it's so obvious:
George W. Bush: Paul Rubens
Dick Cheney Danny DeVito
Laura Bush would be played by a Siamese cat with a Southern meow (the crossed eyes)
The role of George W. Bush will be played by Timmy from South Park
Sean Hannity as George Bush-
Ann Coulter as Laura Bush-
They won't even have to fake the sex scenes.
Wait a minute, didn't they already make this move? Wasn't it called "Devil's Advocate"? Except the ending was a little different. In the movie, the main character shoots himself, in the Bush story, the main character runs away to a secure location somewhere in Paraguay.
Boris Badenuv and Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle! would be my casting choice for these two fucktards!
Elmer Fudd as Dick Cheney
Porky Pig as Carl Rove
Daffy Duck as "The guy that gets shot in the face"
Foghorn Leghorn as Donald Rumsfeld
and
GW Bush as GW Bush
With special guests Eddie Murphy as Condi Rice
Please don't make Whoopie play Condi !!
I love and admire Whoopie, and besides, Condi would never sleep with Ted Danson !!
Whoop !, We Love You and still to this day demand that you be given TWO Oscars for The Color Purple !!
Tad @ 36:
That's even better than Randy Quaid!
LMAO! If only!
sassafra @ 84:
c'mon that kid had talent... bu$h... none whatsoever!
Fred Thompson and Katherine Harris
Chevy Chase should play bush. No one else could do it and make me laugh at the same time.
Casting Bush
http://bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/what-me-worry-71560...
Tom Hanks playing Forrest Gump as GW
0r (if he were alive) Jim Neibors playing Gomer Pile as GW
Yoda at Barbara.
Don from Canada @ 92:
Don From Canada !!
You ROCK Dude !!
Daffy Duck... I Can Already See The Pellets Heading For His Face !!
ROFL
Too MUCH !!
Big Smile !!
Frank Caliendo as Dumbya (he'd have to lose weight)
Bo Derek as Pickles
Mr Potatohead as Rove
The Truth Hurts @ 51:
Huh? You actually think the movie will be a favorable "fluff" paeon to GWB? I'd expect those 28% to be the last to want to see what's coming.
It's no that easy to cast Laura Bush. It's not enough to have merely a good actress, but preferably someone who actually has murdered her boyfriend who just jilted her.
The two mimes from Paris Je T'aime.
Easy-----Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates.
why can't he just use sock puppets?
Dunlap as W
Jackie Broyles as Cheney
Dubya: Patrick Duffy. Bobby Ewing from 'Dallas'fame.
Laura : Priscilla Presley. Shes got 'vapid' down.
Harriet Myers: Rachel Dratch. From SNL and 30 Rock.
Karl Rove: Vincent D'Onofrio. 'Law and Order: Criminal Intent."
Jeff Gannon: The lead singer from "Right Said Fred." 'I'm Too Sexy For The Press
Room."
Dana Perino: Martin Short in drag doing a female version of attorney 'Nathan Thurm.'
Lynn Cheney: Imelda Staunton.
And, reaching back through time:
Cheney: Lionel Barrymore. Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life". By a hair over Sidney
Greenstreet.
Alberto Gonzales: Alfonso Bedoya. "Warrants? We don't need no steenking warrants!"
Condi Rice: Butterfly McQueen. "I don't know nothing 'bout no middle-east peace
talks!"
I'm stuck on Rummy and DeLay.
If he were alive,I'd nominate Moe of the Three Stooges to play Bush. The only difference is that Moe was much smarter than Bush.
Bush-Himself...No man alive one can act that stupid.
Laura-That ignorant right wing bitch from "The View"
Cheney-Hannibal Lecter
Condi-The Gecko lizzard
Dubya: Chris Burke
Laura: Stephen Rea (in drag)
don rickles as cheney
li'l kim as condi
mencia as gonzales
Michael "Kramer" Richards as Bush. Seems all too fitting. ;)
Don Knotts for Bush
Maureen Stapleton for Laura
Rob Galgano @ 4:
The turd has been cast as a Rovian ancestor.
olo @ 115:
The turd turned down the role.....beneath him.
DHSmd @ 102:
I don't know, if you're going to slam Chimpy and his zombie wife, why would you cast two attractive, talented actors?
George W. Bush = Martin Mull
Laura Bush = Madelyn Kahn
Karl Rove = Zero Mostel
Dick Cheney = Grandpa Lewis
John Bolton = Cap'n Crunch
George HW Bush = Harvey Korman
Barbara Bush = Phyliss Diller
John Ashcroft = Tim Conway
Condi Rice = Jamie Fox (in drag)
Colin Powell = Kid (from Kid N' Play)
Laura - Any southern Stepford wife newly back from a lobotomy.
Jeana - Tonya Harding
Barbara - Colonel Sanders
Rove - Porky Pig
Condi - Buckwheat
Shrub - Lint from my dryer.
For W, anybody who has played Richard III, or maybe the late, great Marty Feldman (it's such an easy part, he could easily do it while dead). For Laura (aka Marian the Librarian) Brittney Spears, or her maternal sister.
definitley Jim Carrey as Dubya and
Cheny = limbaugh (same look, same level of evil i.e off the meter
rumsfeld = hannibal lecter (although Sir Anthony Hopkins would never, he's got more self respect and morals)
Laura=helena bonhan carter
Condi=herself, its hard to get anyone worse
Wolfowitz = ROger moore (has that ruthless bone in his movement
ferrofluid @ 3:
LOL
Or hand-puppets, but now I am just riding on your coat tails.
Funny!
Well, we clearly need to find a cocaine-addled drunken chimp with a SAG card. Not sure if we can find anybody dumb enough in Hollywood, and that's saying something.
Talent search, anyone?
Tad @ 36:
Spot on...only I'm not sure Jonathan Winters is butch enough.
Sue @ 28:
With Tannya Harding as Laura.
Bush -- Charlie Callas
Lawwa -- Ruth Buzzi
Found-Object Stand-ins for the cast:
Bush: a pickle jar with the air sucked out. In other words, a vacuum
Laura: a doormat
Cheney: a lump of black coal
Rumsfeld: a malfunctioning Speak & Spell toy
Condi: a small section of a picket fence (a disastima, get it?)
Jeff Gannon: a bottle of astroglide
Rove: what else, but a blossoming turd
Tom Delay: a lone, squirming maggot
Scooter Libby: a bleached raisin
McCane: a pickle jar with no lid
I could go on....
truth be told PHYSICALLY they are not ugly people, you have to peel away the layers and then the ugliness surfaces.
Busted Flat in Baton Rouge @ 119:
Don't you think that lint from your belly button would be better suited to protray the angst of a living preznit?
George and Laura have already been portrayed on screen -- the president and first lady characters in "Putney Swope" (both actors were little people and not very good thespians, imho).
No but seriously, I nominate the feather from "Forrest Gump" as W (with a tip of the hat to Gary Trudeau). Need some serious CGI shit to make him believable, might as well make it the feather.
Dave Chapelle's "Black Bush" was pretty funny, though far more decent and likeable than the real thing.
Amazing when you realize there aren't real human actors who are vapid or despised enough to fill these roles.
Bush: Martin Short as a deliriously vicious Ed Grimly.
Pickles: Kristen Wiig (from SNL) as a chain-smoking, vodka be sodden Penelope
Is Arte Johnson still alive?
Perhaps have Erik Idle as George Bush and Bennie Hill as Cheney.
Chico Hussein @ 32:
LOL.... whatever happened to 'Lil Bush..... that was brilliant.
Mike @ 13:
PERFECT!
Fuck Bush. Stone is wasting his time and money. No one will go watch this movie...
Ru Paul as Condi, Marilyn Manson as Pickles, Ted Nugent as Dumbya, the Pillsbury Doughboy as Rove, Manuel Noriega as Gonzolez, Artie (verry interresting) Johnson as Cheney, Johnny Winter as Ann Coulter, Britney Spears as Jenna, Herman Munster as Rumsfeld, and Gollum as Wolfowitz. Jabba the Hut as Hastert. A three hundred lb bag of manure as Limbaugh and featuring Teddy Ruxpin as Tucker Carlson.
What's Bonzo doing these days? He's got the necessary range and intelligence to master the role of Bush.
Oliver SHOULD cast Matt Battaglia as Bush.
I'd get tremendous joy from watching the same actor who played Emmett Honeycutt's boyfriend on "Queer As Folk" play the Chimp-in-Chief.
It would make the rightwing lunatic fringe go completely apeshit. That ALONE would be worth it.
Plus, he's a good actor. Which he's going to need to be, in order to be able to play someone that dimwitted.
Any particular Stepford Wife-looking mannequin could play Laura.
The musical version:
Bush - Pete Doherty
Laura - Mindy McCready
Cheney - Suge Knight
Rove - Elton John
Condi - Yo-Yo Ma
Powell - Quincy Jones
John Ashcroft - as himself
Josh Brolin? Are you kidding? Bush is Alfred E. Neuman from Mad Magazine. The resemblance is uncanny (in both appearance and intelligence).
What Me Worry?
George W Bush - Will Ferrell
Laura Bush - Reba (or chick from Reno 911 after Dangles nuts)
Barbara Bush - stuarts mom on mad tv
Bush Twins - mary kate and asley
Dick Cheney - David Koechner
Karl Rove - Jack Black
Donald Rumsfeld - Jack Nicholson
Condi Rice - Eddie Murphy
Colin Powell - Eddie Murphy
Jesse Jackson - Eddie Murphy
Rudy Guilliani - LT. Dangle (reno911)
Al Gore - Ben Affleck
John Kerry - Jason Lee
Barney Fyfe as the "W"
the Mother from Obblongs as Laura
The choice for GWB is obvious: Crispin Glover
He could also play the older Bush like in Back to the Future.
The better question is: Who is going to waste their dwindling cash supply to see this movie? If Stone wants to make a movie about a failed president, he should wait. 100 years should be long enough. Stone would be dead of course and no one would care about the subject to go see it even then.
I'd go to the National Zoo's chimp house to find a suitable and believable actor to do the Bush role, per:
http://www.bushorchimp.com/
For Pickles, I'd go to the nearest cucumber farmer and select the biggest monster cucumber avaiable. Then I'd pick up a Mr and Mrs. Potato Head at Toys'R'US for the eyes, nose, mouth, etc. All her parts would then be animated by the South Park crew.
In whole it would be so accurate that it could be entertainment and a historical documentary. Kinda like a floor wax and a desert topping.
Bush - John Madden
Laura - Carol Channing
Cheney - Robert DiNero
Rummy - Danny DeVito
Powell - Damon Wayans
Condi - Tommy Davidson
Bush41 - Dana Carvey (Who else?)
Babs - Whoever played Michael York's mother in Austin Powers (That's a man, baby!)
Tad @ 37:
i agree with all but the casting for "laura bush" -- judi dench has way too much depth as an actress to do justice to the role. personally, i think jennifer love hewitt would nail it.
Mick Fowler @ 138:
ROFLMAO'ing. OK..I can breath again. Now, if only Stone will let the Wayans Brothers direct.
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