1st Photo: Kevin Spacey As Jack Abramoff

COMMENTS (20)

• He looks nothing like Abramoff (not that anyone outside of DC is familiar enough with him to care). Why make this movie? We no longer trust our politicians, so material “exposing” their corruption no longer intrigues us (unless it involves murder and sex, which this story does not). Its been 30 years since Watergate, and there are still people who think audiences are interested in political scandal flicks.

  Comment by johnny Marshall — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 11:47am PDT  Reply to this post

• He looks a lot like Kevin Spacey to me. Will they fix that in post?

  Comment by Studio Honcho — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 11:59am PDT  Reply to this post

• I agree that he looks nothing like him… Though Spacey had the balls to play a 25 year old Bobby Darin, so this should be cake.

  Comment by Realworldperson — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 12:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Gosh, Jack Ambramoff is such a HUGE part of American culture that this was a movie that HAD TO BE MADE!
  How could they deny the public pressure to make this film?

  Move over TRANSFORMERS box office records, here comes CASINO JACK!

  Somebody get my sleeping bag.
  I’m camping out for tickets!

  Comment by ReelBusy — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 12:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Totally spot on. This film does not need to be made; films about toys from the 1980s need to be made. This is just taking valuable money away from more films by Michael Bay. When are they going to stop making smaller films that people who don’t masturbate to cartoons might appreciate?! WHEN WILL HOLLYWOOD GET IT??!!#!

    Comment by explodedview — Monday March 29, 2010 @ 1:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• The story’s amazing & Spacey’s a great actor. I’ll watch it.

  Comment by tammanycall — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 2:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Where’s the hat?

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 3:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Ben Affleck should have played Abramoff.

  Comment by ted — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 4:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “The story’s amazing & Spacey’s a great actor. I’ll watch it.”

  That’s always a publicist’s word: Amazing. This is amazing, that’s amazing, he’s amazing, she’s amazing. Christ! Find a dictionary and start reading.

  Comment by Ron — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 4:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yup. He’s still creepy.

  Comment by Chuck — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 5:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Who gets to play Bush White House joy boy Jeff Gannon? Ever wonder why that guy hasn’t written a book???

  Comment by Slippery Pete — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 5:23pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What about Abramoff the movie producer? He made that awesome movie “Red Scorpion” with Dolph Lundgren remember? I met Abramoff in 1988 when he had an office on Wilshire he was really fat in those days. He lost a lot of weight and left showbiz for political wheeling and dealing, where the real money is. Now he’s in jail. There’s a lesson in there somewhere.

  Comment by Casino Jacko — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 5:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• kevin, barry, kelly…..great cast….looking forward to great performances…..george is a superbly talented director….LOVED Factory Girl and Man From Elysian Fields. i’ll pay $12!!

  Comment by Lauren — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 6:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Is this really news? Why are so interested in this movie, Nikki? You’re turning into a publicist for this. You make fun of Clooney for not being able to open a movie. Wait til you see how bad this thing bombs. Nobody really cares about this story.

  Comment by someone's shill — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 7:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Jack Abramoff’s Red Scorpion

  This trailer remix of Jack Abramoff’s Red Scorpion is so hot, it stings.

  http://www.spike.com/video/jack-abramoffs-red/2691235

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 7:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Another movie by leftists that no one wants to see. Surely it will get an academy award nod, and surely the ratings will continue to plunge as most Americans ask, “who makes this crap.”

  How about a film exploring Obama’s relationship with Tony Rezko? Or Obama suing Citi Bank on behalf of ACORN forcing Citi to give bad loans? Anyone? Hello?

  Comment by jefcostello — Thursday July 2, 2009 @ 10:07am PDT  Reply to this post

• Doesn’t matter, it’s Kevin Spacey. Good to see him back in films! Now if he’ll just do a black comedy or thriller again.

  Comment by Jimmy — Thursday July 2, 2009 @ 1:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Jefcostello, you must be a stand-up comic, right? I love it when right wing wackos say that exposing any scandal, crime, treason or bogus war that implicates Republicans is the work of “leftists.” LOL.

  Comment by Wolf_Cabaret — Monday July 6, 2009 @ 4:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I wonder who they got to play Tom Delay. Too bad Aliester Crowley is dead, he could have done Tom Delay in his sleep. Getting Hitler would be overkill, though only slightly. On the other hand, a flesh eating zombie could probably learn to imitate Delay fairly quickly. Suggestions?

  Comment by Wolf_Cabaret — Monday July 6, 2009 @ 4:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why make this movie?

  from Wikepedia: “Abramoff was a top lobbyist for the Preston Gates & Ellis and Greenberg Traurig firms and a director of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, and Toward Tradition. He was College Republican National Committee National Chairman from 1981 to 1985. He was a founding member of the International Freedom Foundation.”

  Like most everyone else in Hollywood, Kevin Spacey is a left wing dupe who will go out of his way to make anyone or anything involved with “the other side” appear evil. Which is why they are making a movie about an absolute nobody.

  Comment by Neal N. — Tuesday July 14, 2009 @ 8:02am PDT  Reply to this post