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Veteran film-maker Lucas Playhill is to make an epic about the 2004 presidential campaign in the United States, which was won by the late George W Bush and which paved the way for modern American democracy.
"It's just such a great subject," said the 73-year-old director of Saving Private Jessica from the Clones of Doom today. "You have these two great rivals, these colossal figures battling for the greatest job on earth, and after they've both given their all in the effort to make it, they're still able to be pals and go save the world together."
The film, which will start principal CGI morphing next month, has been scripted from actual television transmissions of George W Bush and his campaign rival, John Kerry. Scenes involving real actors will be filmed in Eastern Europe where locations are cheaper, with Warsaw standing in for Washington DC. Parts of the city have been extensively refurbished and several hundred people made homeless in preparation for the shoot.
Some controversy has arisen over the decision to portray the two men as buddies at the end of the film. Members of several Christian groups have threatened to boycott the film when it opens because of its portrayal of the president as "crawling into bed with baby-killing tree-hugging fags."
Mr Playhill does not seem unduly concerned about such unfavourable advance reviews. "I don't think we've really stretched the boundaries very much here," he said. "They were members of the same frat house, they both believed in national security; all sorts of stuff. I think it's going to be a terrific movie. A serious message about significant issues that we all believe in, but cute and funny, too."
Casting has been kept a tightly-held secret in preparation for the advertising campaign, but it is rumoured that the respected British actress Kate Winslet will be playing Laura Bush, the president's beloved wife. The real Mrs Bush has been in bed on a drip-feed of ethanol and antidepressants for the past fourteen years, but the film's backers, Murdoch Disney, say they hope she will be able to attend the premi�re.
We regret that we cannot be held responsible if the future turns out differently due to inaccuracies in the present
Veteran film-maker Lucas Playhill is to make an epic about the 2004 presidential campaign in the United States, which was won by the late George W Bush and which paved the way for modern American democracy.
"It's just such a great subject," said the 73-year-old director of Saving Private Jessica from the Clones of Doom today. "You have these two great rivals, these colossal figures battling for the greatest job on earth, and after they've both given their all in the effort to make it, they're still able to be pals and go save the world together."
The film, which will start principal CGI morphing next month, has been scripted from actual television transmissions of George W Bush and his campaign rival, John Kerry. Scenes involving real actors will be filmed in Eastern Europe where locations are cheaper, with Warsaw standing in for Washington DC. Parts of the city have been extensively refurbished and several hundred people made homeless in preparation for the shoot.
Some controversy has arisen over the decision to portray the two men as buddies at the end of the film. Members of several Christian groups have threatened to boycott the film when it opens because of its portrayal of the president as "crawling into bed with baby-killing tree-hugging fags."
Mr Playhill does not seem unduly concerned about such unfavourable advance reviews. "I don't think we've really stretched the boundaries very much here," he said. "They were members of the same frat house, they both believed in national security; all sorts of stuff. I think it's going to be a terrific movie. A serious message about significant issues that we all believe in, but cute and funny, too."
Casting has been kept a tightly-held secret in preparation for the advertising campaign, but it is rumoured that the respected British actress Kate Winslet will be playing Laura Bush, the president's beloved wife. The real Mrs Bush has been in bed on a drip-feed of ethanol and antidepressants for the past fourteen years, but the film's backers, Murdoch Disney, say they hope she will be able to attend the premi�re.
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