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Summit Entertainment has released a trailer on Fair Game, the Doug Liman-directed film that stars Naomi Watts as outed CIA operative Valerie Plame and Sean Penn playing her husband, Joseph Wilson. The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival
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I haven’t seen the finished product but I read the script. There’s virtually no action in the movie whatsoever so I find this trailer incredibly deceptive.
This is a talky, talky drama.
What’s wrong with talky? Talky served the first 5000 years of drama pretty well. Only in the last 10 or so have we needed Vin Diesel to blow something up to get our dramatic rocks off. Looks awesome. Can’t wait.
The last ‘ten’ or so? Really? I could spend a bit of time listing hundreds, if not thousands of action movies FAR, FAR, FAR older than 10 years.
No, you read *A* script. Scripts get rewritten all the time, and usually during filming. For all you know, the script you read isn’t even remotely close to the final shooting draft.
Liman is a great, innovative director. And Bush was an inattentive failure, to say the least. But is there a story, here? All this editing flash and pseudo-glamour. Who did they cast as the fat, bald dull guy who actually outed her? It was just some gossiping hump at the State Department.
Not exactly “All the President’s Men.”
What has happened to Doug Liman’s career? After Jumper and this movie (which will probably make less than 10 million) he’s going to be begging for work.
This leftist homage will bomb big time.
Con$ervative$ only care about $.
Slit. My. Wrists.
She wasn’t a field agent and her name was slipped (accidentally?) not by vindictive Bush people but by Colin Powell’s Richard Armitage.
Are they trying to pretend that wasn’t the case or are they admitting this is a b.s. version of history?
You sound like you’ve enjoyed the favors of Miss Elsie. Take your own sloppy cow seconds; sorta like Ms. Plame and her useless hubby.
typical self-serving liberal propaganda!!!
The road to the Drudge Report lies in the tabs bar on the top of your browser… have fun making friends with other “self-serving right wing nuts” over there.
Not a chance. Continually confronting liars is what’s getting Obama out of office. And ending Leni Reifenstahl’s propaganda fan club is our evil goal.
?? Really, it’s the TRUTH they outed her to get back at her husband. Remember the Scooter Libby fall guy part? Jeez, Has Fox News rendered you to stupidity? Facts are Facts Jack whether you like them or not!
There’s nothing wrong with a talky drama. But don’t cut a trailer and promise The Bourne Ultimatum and then deliver Terms of Endearment.
Looks great. Hopefully there will be more films that fully expose the vile evil of the Bush years. It’s one of the few hopes this country has, that seeing our shameful history of the last ten years exposed for all to see sets us on the road to redemption.
Is this exposed history? Or is it based on a true story?
Cuz the last ten years has been the only time we’ve been involved in “shameful history”, right?? Ask your local Native American. Ask a surviving guard who was at Attica. Ask some Panamanians. Ask a 70 year-old African American. The list goes on.
Doug Liman is a total nightmare. I know a ton of people who swear they they will NEVER EVER work with him again. He sabotages people and is not a team player.
Yawn…there is a nice slot next to “Greenzone” where blockbuster can store one more crap Iraq movie. America does not want to see this. Sly should do Rambo 5 and go back to Afghanistan and kick some Al-Qaeda ass….would do five times what this movie will do.
Comments here are a nice glimpse into the right-wing mindset; the knee-jerking outrage, sniffling indignation and ferocious sanctimony. And the reason it’s not ‘All The President’s Men’ is the story and the betrayal of Plame isn’t a tense nail-biter so much as a depressing trudge. Anyway, you don’t like it, make your own entertainment industry.
There is zero movie here, let alone an action movie as the trailer promises. However, I don’t blame Liman et al for thinking the Plame situation was worth tens of millions of dollars in budget, promotion, etc. Anyone whose only contact with the “news” is through Daily Kos and the Huffington Post would believe Valerie Plame was nothing short of Eveyln Salt, a deep cover agent firing two guns while rappelling off of buildings, when in fact Plame was a paper-pusher in an agency that since Clinton has been promoting non-field agents (people with no real spy experience) to management positions.
Oh, and it was Richard Armitage who revealed her name, not Scooter Libby. It’s a well-known (but little-publicized) fact. (I know, facts shouldn’t stand in the way of a good bitch session). I interviewed Robert Novak, the main journalist involved in the situation, before he passed away.
I realize I’m shouting against the wind here, on a forum where people accuse people of being knee-jerk while simultaneously calling them “Right wingers” and other names, flaming them for not buying the MSM line hook, line, and sinker.
You’re shouting against the wind because every thinking person knows that the outing of a CIA agent for any reason, let alone a political one, is a crime and a shame. And you hit another talking point that really drives me nuts; namely that Plame wasn’t nearly as heroic an agent as the movies (Salt? Am I missing the connective tissue there?) or “the MSM” (ugh, that does include Fox, right?) would have us believe. I don’t believe we really know what all of Plame’s work entailed, but in any case do you really think someone can’t be heroic from behind a desk? She should have been doing a little more ‘wet work’ in order to meet your definition of a patriot whose service and courage we should value? I disagree.
She and her husband were know-nothing nobodies in Washington. Richard Armitage gave up nothing. She occasionally flew a desk at headquarters, driving in and out of the lot, in full view of the people who wanted nothing more to do with her and her crazy, batshit husband. Their greatest accomplishment was getting gullible, Hollywood idiots to shoot a Vanity Fair cover as a predicate to this preposterous movie. BTW, I can see November from my house . . .
Mr. Rex – Some of what you say is founded in fact, but your use of the right-wing tactic of spinning lies and distortions from those thin shreds of truth ultimately undermines any point you try to make.
Yes, Ms. Wilson was indeed riding a desk at the time of her shameful, revenge-motivated unmasking. But to note this and to completely ignore deep-cover career from the time of her joining the Agency to the time of the birth of her twins completely shows where you are coming from.
Yes, most people know that the odious Mr. Novak was not the person who first revealed Ms. Wilson’s employment. The FACT that Bush Administration officials and its non-governmental supporters placed such importance over “getting” Ms. Wilson’s husband, to the point of destroying a career of a dedicated American patriot who gave up many lucrative chances to leave the Agency to make money in the private sector, is the kind of inconvenient fact that mud-dwellers like you and the other Drudge-worshipers like to dismiss without further thought. That may work with the mouth-breathing crowd, but not so much on people with functioning brains.
And tell us, Mr. Rex: What about the covert non-American sources whom Ms. Wilson developed over the years of her foreign service – sources that provided America with invaluable information – information which often saved American lives? How easy do you and your mugwump rabble think it is going to be for future American intelligence agents to recruit foreign assets to aid’s America’s battle against those who would do us harm?
If I were one of those foreign assets being asked to provide intelligence to America, I would simply tell the American agent to go to hell, saying “you expect me to risk my life after the way Valerie Wilson’s assets were left hanging in the wind”?
Actions have consequences.
Back to the upcoming movie – I didn’t read the script, so I can’t say how close it hewed to the book (which I thought was very fine, even with all of the redactions). Generally speaking, I think that if they managed to keep it a personal story, and managed to limit doctrinaire political shrillness, that the movie has a chance to find an audience. Marketing will be critical.
Doctrinaire political shrillness is what Hollywood does. That’s why you’re not selling as many tix.
Neither of these clowns were patriots. Wilson got a chaiwallah job in Gabon, an West African backwater, from recommendations of his wife to the State dept., an utterly gray little utilitarian at Langley. She dropped “cover” for Joe Wilson on their 3rd date in Paris, hardly CIA protocol. After a few years, she discovered how unemployable he was and she shilled State to find something for him to do. That’s how he ended up in Niger, unwittingly confirming what the Senate Subcommittee on Intelligence and the 9/11 Commission already knew; Niger sold yellowcake to a consortium of Iraqi buyers. The fact that Hollywood types conflate any convenient useful idiot into a hero is further evidence of the utterly predictable stories that splat on the screen, oozing factual/historical/political fiction. We’re onto the game and the monotonous politics. Nobody buys you. Nobody.
Thanks, Mouse, for breezing over the fact that Richard Armitage actually told Novak about Plame. (If you followed the Plame story on MSNBC, that revelation that Bush wasn’t involved — after weeks and months of breathless coverage — is when Chris Matthews famously stopped covering the Plame Affair, declaring, “it’s too complicated for people to follow.”
For the record, thousands of people work for the CIA who don’t need to be “unmasked”. You can watch them drive their cars into Langley every day. Their neighbors know where they work, etc. Only deep cover agents can be “unmasked” and Plame wasn’t one of them.
To think Plame was some super-secret agent before Boogeyman Bush outed her was proven false –not only by an anti-Bush special prosecutor who overturned every stone, but also by the fact she and her husband (who wrote that phony-baloney negative report on yellow cake uranium because he was grooming himself to be National Security Advisor for President Kerry) splashed their faces all over Vanity Fair.
True spies serve honorably in the shadows. CIA has a memorial to all of those who have died in the line of duty, and those memorials mention no names. They are memorialized on a plain white marble wall by an austere gold star for each fallen agent — not a garish Annie Leibowitz pictoral.
Thank you, Stephen — you’re not shouting into the wind. More and more people are listening…and they’re calling “bullshit” on this lib propaganda.
This movie won’t make a dime.
Interesting that Liman got DP credit as well – I thought they didn’t allow that… hence Soderbergh always going by Peter Andrews or whatever name he uses.
Mouse-Averse, thanks for that sound and detailed response to Rex’s rather problematic statement. It’s nice to see people actually understanding how this is an important story (and perhaps an important film), as opposed to ignorantly calling it “liberal propaganda.”
It’s most definitely liberal propaganda; the usual Hollywood infatuation with the idea that the viewing public aren’t as well-informed as they are. This story has been thoroughly exposed, repeatedly. The fact that Hollywood types enthusiastically continue to prop up tin-pot dictators (Sean Penn’s best friend Hugo Chavez?), ersatz film historians (Hugo’s other BFF Oliver Stone) only expose how pathetically bong-addled you all are. You’re too out-of-touch to be appropriately embarrassed at what fools you continue to be.
Caroline – you seriously need psychiatric help.
The biggest problem with this story is that there was no resolution…
Caroline made a cogent and accurate statement about the meaningless of the plames. ghost of philip agee: you are the one who needs the assistance of a mental health professional.