W.
Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Jeffrey Wright, Richard Dreyfuss
And who might that “W.” be, given that the director is Oliver Stone? History’s not even dry on the page, but Stone is going great guns ablazin’ with his irreverent biopic about our president’s unlikely rise to power: the drinking, drugs, gentleman’s C’s at Yale, and accidental political aspirations that landed Dubya, much like Peter Sellers in Being There, as leader of the free world. Honestly, we’d love to watch the crazy Stone of Nixon make a comeback after such timid mis fires as World Trade Center. His cast is especially promising: Expect Dreyfuss to be unhinged playing Darth Cheney, while Wright quietly holds down the film’s besieged moral center as Colin Powell. Tragedy or black comedy? If Stone is true to his subject—as well as to his own past as one of America’s boldest filmmakers—W. will have healthy doses of both.
