Josh Brolin to Play George W Bush

Josh Brolin is set to play the role of George Bush in the newest movie of the Oscar winning director, Oliver Stone.  The film, Bush, will focus on the life and presidency of George Bush and according to Variety, the script was written by Stanley Weiser.

Filming is expected to begin in April and done by the US presidential election if financing is agreed on.

Stone does not intend to make an anti-Bush movie, but instead will focus on key moments in the president’s life in an effort to explain how he came into power.  The story structure is likened to The Queen, a Stephen Fears film.

Stone says, “It’s a behind-the-scenes approach, similar to Nixon, to give a sense of what its like to be in his skin.  But if Nixon was a symphony, this is more like a chamber piece, and not as dark in tone.”

The award winning director went on tot say, “People have turned my political ideas into a cliché but that is superficial.  I’m a dramatist who is interested in people, and I have empathy for Bush as a human being, much the same as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison, Jim Garrison and Alexander the Great.”

Josh Brolin began his career with TV movies until he got the role of Brand Walsh in the Richard Donner movie, The Goonies.  He continued his TV career by turning down the role of Tom Hanson, 21 Jump Street, which was later played by Johnny Depp.  He played Bill Hickok in the Young Riders and participated on Winnetka Road and Mister Sterling.

Brolin’s movie career consisted of Hollow Man, and more recently, Planet Terror, of the Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriquez film, Grindhouse.  He was also in No Country for Old Men by the Coen Brothers and the Ridley Scott film, American Gangster.