Maybe Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic, “W” will be a comedy! This might explain why Lionsgate is deciding to release the film on October 17 – just three weeks before the November 4 elections even though not an inch of film has been shot yet.
Filming begins May 12, which basically gives them five months to shoot, edit and finish the film in time for mid-October. Uhh, rush much? And casting for the remaining members of Bush’s collusion cabinet haven’t even been announced yet!
There’s basically three options here: 1) The most obvious one: the deadline is missed and the film has to come out in say, January ’09 around inaguration time. It seems impossible that they will hit this date. 2) It’s a full-blown comedy, it’s shot in long, masters and it’s easy to edit and piece together. Danny Elfman does the score. 3) It’s the serious drama we’re all frightened it might be and it’s Oliver Stone, so it’s just another one of the hackneyed jobs he’s done in the last decade or so. Man, we can’t wait for October.
Most telling? Lionsgate’s bread and butter is shit like the “Saw” series and other schlocky, pump-’em-out horror films made for the specific purpose of generating money. It’s not like there’s a lot of quality control or Oscar nominations over at the studio. Prepare for a glorious trainwreck.