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Woody Harrelson has joined Julianne Moore and Ed Harris in HBO Films’ Game Change, produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone. The movie, directed by Jay Roach, follows John McCain’s (Harris) 2008 presidential campaign, from his selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (Moore) as his running mate to their ultimate defeat in the general election. Harrelson will play Steve Schmidt, McCain’s senior campaign strategist and adviser.
Based on the bestselling book Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, the film is directed by Roach and written by Danny Strong, whose previous collaboration was HBO’s Recount, about the 2000 Florida recount. Playtone is producing in association with Roach’s Everyman Pictures, with Hanks, Goetzman and Roach executive producing. Strong serves as co-executive producer.
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Harrelson is a bona fide hitter. He made my 10 Favorite Actors for Listerman’s. Ask Jackson for the list if you don’t believe me.
Now if they could just squeeze Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange on board this could be the crazy liberal powerhouse HBO must be dreaming of.
Your wit and originality is only matched by your insight and intelligence. Rock on.
This will be absolute progressive garbage.
Just look at the Kenyan teleprompter reader now, and look at the damage he’s done to our country.
God help us.
Only one question remains: Fred Armisen or Will Smith?
Will the movie be based mostly on the parts of the book that are about the McCain campaign? Because the book was about all of the candidates, and actually spent most of its time on Jon and Elizabeth Edwards and the Hillary-Obama primaries.
Giancarlo Esposito would be an excellent Barack Obama.
Every Hollywood lib douchebag is attaching his or herself to this thing like a leach. After 2 years they still can’t stay away from Palin, it’s like a sickness they’ve got. Mean while there God Barry isn’t doing anything right but they continue to kiss his skinny ass. HBO better hope all those right-wing talk radio meanies don’t call for their lemmings to dump their HBO…..because they just may do it for the hell of it, them Tea Partyers love a fight. It’s not like HBO is pulling any numbers worth bragging about since “The Soprons” left.
I’m sure HBO could care less what Rush and all the other right wing nuts think!
No doubt the stars attached to this product feel that they’re educating the public as to how vile McCain and Palin really are. I’m surprised they don’t have Oliver Stone directing this, given the historical accuracy of “JFK” and his other films.
Yes, that was sarcasm.
The fact is, the only people who’ll watch this turkey are the people who already hate McCain and Palin. The rest of the audience will have an even lower opinion of Hollywood in general and will ignore it.
I always wondered what policital affiliation your run-of-the-mill Deadline Troll subscribed to. Now we konw. Katie saved us from Sarah. Katie deserves a Nobel prize for chemistry, for shifting the Ph balance of that election.
This book blew, how are they going to make a decent flick from it? If you follow politics, there were several events that totally were incorrect in the book. Yikes.
It does not take much to bring out braindead and brainwashed right wing faux christian bigots.