Ronald Reagan Movie Planned for 2011

[mike r]

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=11580252

Ronald Reagan Movie Planned for 2011
By Paul Bond

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The story of Ronald Reagan's life -- from boyhood to Hollywood actor to leader of the free world -- is about to spill out on the big screen in a way quite different from the miniseries that caused such a stir seven years ago.

The feature film, titled "Reagan" and sporting a $30 million production budget, is set for release late next year and will be based on two best-selling biographies of the 40th U.S. president by Paul Kengor: "The Crusader" and "God and Ronald Reagan."

Jonas McCord, who is not a Reagan fan, wrote the script. "I was of the opinion that at best he was a bad actor and at worst a clown," McCord said.

But the scribe, whose credits include "Malice" and "The Body," said he was drawn to the project as he researched the former president's upbringing. He described Reagan's childhood as "a surreal Norman Rockwell painting with his alcoholic Catholic father, devout Christian mother, Catholic brother and ever-changing boarders the family took in."...

[mdmc]

1. I hate horror flicks

dislike!

[liberal N proud]

2. Rewriting history?

Or will someone tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

[saltpoint]

3. It is unfortunate that Robert Altman is not still with us.

I'd trust him to do a biopic of Ronald Reagan.

Absent Altman's talent, I'm a bit skeptical.

It might be a lot of fun to deliberately cast against type, though.

[baldguy]

4. And Leni Riefenstahl will direct!

[hobbit709]

5. Bedtime for Bozo?

[Cirque du So-What]

6. I wish Oliver Stone would make a movie showing St. Ronnie's dark side

such as when he became a rat-fuck bastard who threw in with the paranoid MFers who saw commies at every turn, destroying lives & careers in Hollywood. Also, his affair with Nancy Davis & breaking up the family he'd started with Jane Wyman. Trouble is, the same things we find abhorrent & hypocritical with St. Ronnie, his worshipers find endearing.



On edit: almost forgot to post this shot from Bedtime for McBonzo.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I don't care who you are, that there is is funny.

[SpiralHawk]

10. Don't forget his Republicon Chickenhawkery

Reagan set the mold for generations of Republicon shirkers who could pretend to be patriotic, and advocate loudly for war, while smirking and farting and FAILING to serve the country and pretending to be heroes.

[OnyxCollie]

17. Oh, shit!

:rofl:

[leveymg]

8. Always thought Reagan was perfectly cast in two roles:

As the smirking mob boss in "The Killers" (1964):




And as the self-righteous Capt. George Custer who helps hunts down and hang John Brown in "Santa Fe Trail" (1940):

[MilesColtrane]

9. World War Z: Simi Valley?

"braaaains, Mommy...braaaains!"

[Lightning Count]

11. Reagan vs. Mothra? nt

[Octafish]

12. Don't forget the October Surprise and its connected Iran-Contra treasons.

Then there's the mafia's influence on the racist Pruneface...among other things.

[Cirque du So-What]

13. No retrospective of St. Ronnie is complete without...

Space doesn't permit a complete list of the Gipper's signals to angry white folks that Republicans prefer to ignore, so two incidents in which Lott was deeply involved will have to suffice. As a young congressman, Lott was among those who urged Reagan to deliver his first major campaign speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered in one of the 1960s' ugliest cases of racist violence. It was a ringing declaration of his support for "states' rights" — a code word for resistance to black advances clearly understood by white Southern voters.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,399921,00.html#ixzz0ywS6CxEt

Even if Raygun was so clueless that he signed on to this speech without considering it in a historical context, he is revealed as a brainless puppet for the racists who run the repug party. Same with his role in Iran-Contra: even if he got off the hook by playing the doddering old fool (how much was really an act?), it was dangerous to allow manipulators to pull the strings - especially the fascists behind the scenes in those days.

On edit: 'considerating' is not a word. DURR!

[SirRevolutionary]

14. ...biographies of the 40th U.S. president, Ronald Reagan

pictured here being hand-fed by his trainer.

[qb]

15. Looks like a shameless attempt to boost repukes in 2012.

I assume it will have a typical array of no-talent actors... maybe Stephen Baldwin as The Gipper?

[peekaloo]

16. Ya know I was going to suggest a Baldwin as the lead.

must be the hair. :hi:

although casting Alec in the later years would be a larf riot just for the reaction from the faithful (of shit).

[qb]

18. I could dig Alec in the part... and Ellen Degeneres as Nancy!

[backscatter712]

19. Reagan should be played by Jim Carrey.

He's already got some experience...

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f5a57185bd/funny-or-die-s-presidential-reunion

[Javaman]

20. $30 million?

in the grand scheme of things, Hollywood-wise, this is nothing more than low budget crap.

it will be sold to video and probably won't see the light of day for general audiences.

The best part will be, which foreign market will buy this stinking load? LOL