Oliver Stone, who as a Hollywood director has largely turned away from a string on movies on recent American history and contemporary political themes during the last decade, and who mostly has a handful of noisy bombs (U-Turn, Any Given Sunday, Alexander) to show for it, seems to have decided to get back to his plow. He spent part of last year preparing a movie about the My Lai massacre, Pinkville, but now that project has been cancelled by its studio. Now Stone has gone way topical with plans to make a biographical picture about the current White House resident to be called, simply, Bush. The film will be written by Stanley Weiser, who worked on the script for Stone's 1987 Wall Street. (More recently, he was responsible for the hagiographic 2003 cable-TV film Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story.) Bush will be played by the very hot-at-this-moment John Brolin, of whom Stone says, "Josh is actually better looking than Bush but has the same drive and charisma that Americans identify with Bush, who has some of that old-time movie-star swagger."
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