Elizabeth Banks to Play Laura Bush
I’m so happy to see Elizabeth Banks earning kudos for her acting. She’s been around since the 90’s, but really only started gaining steam a few years ago. I loved her in 2006’s “Invincible” (pictured) with Mark Wahlberg.
Now she’s on board to play First Lady Laura Bush alongside Josh Brolin’s President Bush in the Oliver Stone biopic, “W.” (What? Michael Moore isn’t doing this one?)
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Stone wrote the screenplay with his “Wall Street” co-writer Stanley Weiser. The film will focus on the life and presidency of George W. Bush, with a behind-the-scenes approach. Shooting is set to start in April.
More after the jump…
In January, Stone told Daily Variety that this movie will offer moviegoers “a fair, true portrait” of President Bush, which will “contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors.”
He added, “It’s a behind-the-scenes approach, similar to “Nixon,” to give a sense of what it’s like to be in his skin,” Stone told Daily Variety. “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.”
He purposely declined to give his personal opinion of the President, saying, “I can’t give you that, because the filmmaker has to hide in the work. Here, I’m the referee, and I want a fair, true portrait of the man.”
Stone said the film will delve into the turning points in Bush’s life, the demons in his private life, his relationship with his father, and his conversion to Christianity.
Elizabeth Banks previously appeared in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and all three “Spider-Man” movies. She recently finished Kevin Smith’s “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” and will next appear in the Eddie Murphy comedy “Meet Dave” and in “Bill” with Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba.
Photo: Elizabeth Banks, Invincible, Walt Disney Pictures, 2006
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