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First photos of Josh Brolin as Bush in Oliver Stone's biopic

ew.com — Wow, the resemblance is pretty striking in these photos.

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  • DiggerVonJigger, on 05/09/2008, -3/+69Josh Brolin as Bush? Won't work. Should have gone with Morgan Freeman.
  • conmulligan, on 05/09/2008, -5/+28Great casting. They should get Jon Stewart to play Cheney; put him in a fat suit and he's perfect...
    • rings035, on 05/09/2008, -1/+9Well, at least Rob Corddry is playing Ari Fleischer...
    • McMagic, on 05/09/2008, -2/+3lol for the mental picture.
  • MarkHunneyman, on 05/09/2008, -9/+84Brolin looks way too smart and sincere for Bush
    • DCstewieG, on 05/09/2008, -0/+10Yeah he doesn't have that glimmer of stupidity in his eyes.
    • Yeshuah, on 05/11/2008, -0/+0Like there's way to much going on in that brain.
  • DeepFriedFetus, on 05/09/2008, -16/+67I'm nervous about this film...I don't think a single movie can really sum up Bush's eight years of fascism and tyranny.
    • toolwieldingape, on 05/09/2008, -10/+1ditto that.
    • silversword990, on 05/09/2008, -3/+11The movie may come too soon if McCain becomes president.
      • ligyron, on 05/09/2008, -11/+3if? Everyone knows McCain will be president. No one can deny a George Bush clone
    • petrodollar, on 05/09/2008, -2/+2You should watch Brazil.
    • doctorfungi, on 05/09/2008, -10/+27Oh for ***** sake. Go live in North Korea, China or Tibet for a year and tell me that you live under a fascist, tyrannical leader. You don't even appreciate how good you have it.
      • drunkwally, on 05/09/2008, -7/+25You don't understand.

        Now is the time to complain about someone like Bush - someone who tortures and detains without trial.

        Once things get as bad as they are in North Korea or China, then it's too late to complain. Then you get killed for complaining. So STFU Retard.
        • masterm1nd, on 05/09/2008, -8/+1.
        • havokzero, on 05/09/2008, -2/+16Excellent post... but the final proclamation really wasn't necessary. It undermined your intelligence, and it made you come off as a real prick.
        • doctorfungi, on 05/11/2008, -1/+1If you can't make a point without calling someone a "retard", I would have to call your intelligence into question.

          I NEVER said that it was wrong to complain. Your pathetic argument is nothing more than a straw man. I said that you don't know how good you have it if you think you're living in a dictatorship. You're not. Stop whining.
      • masterm1nd, on 05/09/2008, -8/+2drunkwally, so when you cry wolf and exaggerate, no one believes you and thus no one does anything about it. If you guys still haven't realized it, you are your own worst enemy.
        • petrodollar, on 05/09/2008, -1/+2No no no, you've got it backwards. The problem is that when you cry wolf and exaggerate, people DO believe you.

          It's only later on, when you're telling the truth and not exaggerating, that "no one does anything about it," because they think you're just exaggerating again.
        • masterm1nd, on 05/09/2008, -5/+1People don't believe you instantaneously when you exaggerate.

          As for crying wolf, they also don't believe you instantaneously, because you've been crying wolf for decades. You see were not believing you because you already cried wolf. If say, you guys didn't constantly cry wolf, you would be correct and people would believe you until they realized you were crying wolf. Honestly pertro, that was the most pathetic nitpickery I have ever seen.
        • masterm1nd, on 05/09/2008, -5/+1In short, this IS later on because you already cried wolf, get it? Ohh well, I know you're just fishing anyways... you better hurry up and point out my typo before I do
        • masterm1nd, on 05/09/2008, -5/+1Ohh well, just ***** bury me even though I'm trying to help you and the cause.
          • NYPD, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Mastermind, Your word fall on all idiots here. This is not a Dem page, but worse a total LIB page. I get the just of you story. It will be to late when the Government is so big no one can stop them and they take all of your money and give you what everyone else gets. I will die for this if I have to. Revaluation? That's OK with me. Live free or Die. Damn that's a Lib state now. Obama is a Marxist and would be a tyrannical leader. I think the past will come out of him. I hope it's before Nov of this year, but it will still happen someday. I say get ready for the fight. When they come to get your guns you know the day is here. Don't keep your guns at home. Hide them. Damn I think my PC is being watched by "The B.O.S.S.! " That's the BO Squad's.
          • masterm1nd, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1I agree that guns are key in telling us where we are. Guns are the first thing to go when things go south. Ironically, who do you thin wants to take them away. Makes no sense.
      • gnuyen, on 05/09/2008, -4/+1Have you lived in North Korea, China or Tibet? I've done China. You don't really notice. Some people do, but hundreds of millions of Chinese think the government is great. I don't think living there would be much of an education
        • jer2eydevil88, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3Look guys the Chinese are paying people to make their government look good. I think its safe to say the Olympics are going to go really well this year...
    • redthirteen, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  • tomjm5000, on 05/09/2008, -3/+17Brolin is a great actor, but other than that first photo, it's an iffy look alike.
  • rjwusa, on 05/09/2008, -15/+8I wonder if Stone will do a film on Clinton? Paul Rubens is available for the part of pervert n' cheat.
    • raoulduke87, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Remind me of when Bill Clinton pulled his ***** out and beat off in a public place....oh yeah, her didn't. Everything he did was done in privacy. Like any consenting adult is allowed to do.
      • rjwusa, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1You're right. Bill Clinton was and is a shining example of ethics and virtue, who honored his marital vows .
    • Trick07, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Why would Stone do a film for someone on "his" side? Hollywood loves Clinton...
      • rjwusa, on 05/09/2008, -2/+1That's why Hollyweird is so out of touch. Has anyone watched TV lately? It blows. Dumbed down for the average 19 year old. Not that I'm picking on 19 year olds.
  • Cheeselover, on 05/09/2008, -2/+51Why not have him play himself? He was pretty good in Harold and Kumar 2
  • cheese06, on 05/09/2008, -2/+16Oliver Stone says it will be released in October, during the height of the general election. This is pure Stone right there, right in the middle of the controversy, and undoubtedly put the movie into media spotlight for months to come. He plays his cards well I suppose.

    I highly doubt this movie will be objective, but I'm looking forward to seeing it. Its a Stone movie anyways, its not meant to be objective.
    • FatLoser, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1I didn't realize Stone was a republican. This is likely to have the Michael Moore effect on the election.
      • Jibberwalk, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1I'm a little confused by this thread... so far as I know Stone is left-leaning. Maybe I missed sarcasm somewhere.
        • FatLoser, on 05/09/2008, -1/+6Michael Moore attempts to sway elections with his movies. The problem is, Michael Moore is an obnoxious fatass hypocrite, so he turns off a lot of people and the opposing candidate benefits from his spectacle. Do you really think somebody who wants to see a Michael Moore film is A) a Republican or B) Likely to change their vote based on what is all to clearly an opinion piece masquerading as a documentary?

          I take back the A) part. Plenty of Republicans see Moore's movies -- and he takes their money and pockets it. Then those who see his movies get so angered by his antics and are energized to vote and speak out against Moore's opinions.
    • PunkRampant, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3He said a while ago that he wanted it to be fairly neutral, but judging by the scene descriptions on the last page of this article, the movie looks like it'll have a ton of attacks on Bush's perceived stupidity.

      Bush confesses to a televangelist, ''The truth is, I really don't want to run [for president].... But I feel that God wants me to do this, and I must do it. I MUST.''
      • floorman56, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Really ...Just another bomb in the making. How many other anti Bush movies have done anything in the box office? He may as well use the millions he will spend on the movie to start a bonfire to burn a effigy of Bush on Hollywood and Vine .. he would get more people to watch that.
  • seomike, on 05/09/2008, -13/+7Bush bashing is sooooo 2006...
    • lougoose, on 05/09/2008, -4/+13Nope, I think it fits in pretty well right now.
    • jer2eydevil88, on 05/09/2008, -2/+7Actually I think its quiet timeless... I look forward fondly to a future where it is so much the norm that the man develops a fear of coming outside of his home from all the humiliation he has to endure when in public.
    • motogoat, on 05/09/2008, -2/+5As soon as every shred of evidence that this man was president is gone from the face of the earth, I'll concede. This isn't a trend; it's a lifestyle. Look around...you're reminded daily everywhere you go that this administration's decisions have threatened the very country that the international community looked up to.
      When we live that down (if we live that down) I'll lay off the laughter when someone tells a good W joke.
  • KnockoutNerd, on 05/09/2008, -2/+10http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/04.17/phot ... No one better.
  • aceakm, on 05/09/2008, -2/+37Looks like he's trying to thinkificate.
    • greenlight2001, on 05/09/2008, -1/+2"I'm still working on finishing this bob the building puzzle... it's hard, real hard but I hope to soon say ' Mission Accomplished' ".
    • TremorX, on 05/09/2008, -1/+4Or maybe he's constipulationated. Maybe he should fiberify his dietation.
    • djadamjay, on 05/09/2008, -1/+2yea, he's definitely pondering his strategery
  • SlapAyoda, on 05/09/2008, -3/+15Doesn't look anything like him, sorry. Might still be a good movie, though. Also, seeing this makes me feel old for growing up watching The Goonies.
  • ltkerr0r, on 05/09/2008, -2/+28I guess Will Ferrell turned down the role
    • matador3, on 05/09/2008, -0/+5Too bad, that would have been epic.
    • motogoat, on 05/09/2008, -0/+8No, I think he's going to make a movie about a president hopeful who loses the election, goes to hide in his own depression, then comes back to actually BECOME president and then that's the end. Kind of like every movie he's ever made.
    • dnields, on 05/09/2008, -1/+2Nah, Will Ferrell doesn't ever turn down a role. I would think that to painfully obvious when you take a look at the plethora of ***** movies he's done.
    • Tyrghast, on 05/09/2008, -3/+1Will Ferrell does not do the best bush impersonation.
  • devilsagain, on 05/09/2008, -2/+4Movie will be overhyped and underpaid.
  • VinnieDaMac, on 05/09/2008, -2/+55Am I the only one that thinks he looks nothing like George W. Bush in that picture?
    • skinrock, on 05/09/2008, -0/+9He looks like Brian Williams if you ask me.
    • CraigReed, on 05/09/2008, -2/+3Likeness is unimportant in the grand scheme of things, Anthony Hopkins didn't look much like Nixon but his performance was stellar so it worked.
  • DarkSenay, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3I'll always see Josh Brolin as Brandon (Mikey's older brother) from the Goonies
  • Reaktor5, on 05/09/2008, -1/+2Josh Brolin is an incredible actor.
  • shyboy2008, on 05/09/2008, -12/+6this film will be a bomb like every other Bush and anti-war film. Hollywood is out of touch with the common man.
    • MrQuoz, on 05/09/2008, -3/+6Yeah, because Bush is so in touch with the common man. He's only the president with the lowest approval rating ever.
      • ZombieAaronBurr, on 05/09/2008, -2/+5Yeah cuase Fahrenheit 9/11 totally bombed. Just made like what? $100 million? Psst.
        (Not saying I take that movie to be the Bible, just pointed out the idiocy of shyboy2008's comment.)
    • PunkRampant, on 05/09/2008, -1/+3Most of the "common men" oppose the war and oppose this president. Have you been under a rock the past 4 years?
    • paulvq, on 05/09/2008, -2/+2He's absolutely right. Farenheit 9/11 made ONLY 120 million in the US alone.
      • floorman56, on 05/09/2008, -2/+1Rendition, In the Valley of Elah, The Kingdom, Lions for Lambs, Redacted, all block busters ....Right...
  • lacunatech, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2I actually think the image where he's not supposed to be George Bush might be the most realistic likeness.
  • humboldt79, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Insert Goonies quote.
  • caldroun, on 05/09/2008, -0/+25"resemblance is pretty striking"? What pictures are you looking at?
  • JohnnyHotballs, on 05/09/2008, -4/+21As for a a lead actor, might I suggest Sprinkles the Chimp from the city zoo
    • greenlight2001, on 05/09/2008, -2/+6Too smart... might overplay the role.
    • jer2eydevil88, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2It's considered Animal abuse to compare them to this man.
  • taradisiac, on 05/09/2008, -2/+0Now all he needs to do is meet some people with presenile dementia and he'll nail it!
  • chkdg8, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1Oh - Em - Gee! That's way too creepy. And to think he was in Goonies.
  • daleok, on 05/09/2008, -3/+4We've put up with this moron for 7 years. Why the hell would I want to see a movie about him? I want to forget about this clown as soon as he leaves office.
    • bartolommeff, on 05/09/2008, -2/+0agree 100% with you! Hopefully he can be forgotten fast. No book, movie, or history class should have him as topic. Ever!
  • rootsm3, on 05/09/2008, -2/+1wow he looks nothing like the president!!! OMIGOD
  • arbouler, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1ew.com is ew in the first place. now bush's face on there? double eww
  • LeePeyton, on 05/09/2008, -9/+3***** OLIVER STONE!!!!!
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  • bcamp1973, on 05/09/2008, -1/+5I can see Oliver now..."Ok, Josh...look constipated...PERFECT! ...roll it!"
  • dnields, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1He just looks like his dad without the beard... it's nothing like Bush at all.
  • elscorcho717, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4I go to Berklee College of Music with Josh Brolin's sister Molly. The whole family is crazy.
    • inbred, on 05/09/2008, -0/+6I once ate a jelly bean that looked like Brad Pitt.
  • cinefreak7, on 05/09/2008, -1/+5I don't think Brolin was chosen because he can look like Bush (he doesn't) but because of his acting skills (which he definitely has). Hey, this is from a director who managed to make Anthony Hopkins completely convincing as Richard Nixon and the physical resemblance there was non-existent.
  • Ocelot13, on 05/09/2008, -1/+2shouldve been ferrell or caliendo.
    • paulvq, on 05/09/2008, -2/+2Caliendo sucks.
      • SPARTACVS, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1Yeah so he's fat and doesn't really look like Bush, still his voice is the best impersonator of him in the world.
  • lopla, on 05/09/2008, -2/+3This movie will never fly and will likely go straight to DVD at which point it will get 3% on rottentomatoes with critic comments such as: I could never stomach listening to bush for 2 minutes, now I have to sit here and listen to him for 3hrs. It was a painful and excruciating exercise.
  • protogenxl, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4Back and to the Left
  • minox, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4I'm sorry but I think that picture looks way more like Tony Snow than George Bush.
  • randyzaia, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2That looks absolutely nothing like Bush.
  • dlindberg, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2looks like Tony Snow
  • masterm1nd, on 05/09/2008, -0/+5Can someone tell me what the point of an obviously biased biography is? Ohh I see it's a biopic so they can pretend it's real pump you full of *****.
  • Hangly, on 05/09/2008, -1/+3They got the squint down.

    I hope this movie is more like JFK and less like Nixon.
  • ihaveamuffinhat, on 05/09/2008, -3/+1I was thinking they shoulda used the guy from Thats my Bush! from that old Comedy Central Show. He has a real resemblance as bush, he played him in the TV movie, DC 9/11 which he actually did a very good job in the seriousness aspect. His name is timothy bottoms I believe. See for yourselves: http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/f/C/tmb_bo ...
  • ihaveamuffinhat, on 05/09/2008, -2/+1What do you guys think about Timothy Bottoms? He was in Thats my Bush! and DC 9/11. His only weak point he might not be a strong enough actor, but who knows. see for yourselves. http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/822080.jpg?v=1&c=Vi ...
  • Stuffs1, on 05/09/2008, -2/+0That is a striking resemblance of Bush. I wonder if the movie will take a political side?
  • mikerohlfing, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1looks EXACTLY like Tony Snow. Hmm....
  • vermax, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1sorry, unless this is a complete ***** that mocks this ***** monkey into his grave, I have to wonder, is someone blackmailing Mr. Shrooms with pictures of him doing Thai children or something? why in ***** is there a movie being made about this worthless worthless man? I have no curiosity about him whatsoever, and i would be completely fine with it if i never ever had to be reminded of his existence ever again.
  • TomJohn, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Looks more like they stuck a Bush wig on Zoolander.
  • atomicski, on 05/09/2008, -3/+3oliver stone should be publicly stoned and have his remains fed to the wonderful people of this country for even thinking of disrespecting his president
  • DarkoKun, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Looks like he's dropping a deuce.
  • dildoolielly, on 05/09/2008, -4/+6Peek at the script...

    1) Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history; (2) Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period; (3) Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market; (4) First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history; (5) After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history;6) In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs; (7) Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history; (8) Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history; (9) Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history; (10) Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed; (11) Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans; (12) Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest a sitting American President, shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind; (13) Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history; (14) First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt; (15) Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world; (16) First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation; (17) Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States; (18) Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history; (19) First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission; (20) First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board; (21) All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations; (22) Biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation); (23) Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history; (24) Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history); (25) With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years;26) Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability; (27) First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea; (30) Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts; (31) Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts; (32) Failed to fulfill his pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'; (33) Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months he has no leads and zero suspects; (34) In the 18 months following the 911 attacks he successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States; (35) Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history; (36) Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic indicator negative.
    • NYPD, on 05/09/2008, -3/+1Bury too long..... You must have "Bush Derangement Syndrome" Get over it! You can vote for BO this year and stay MAD because he will lose too!
    • billyfalconer, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1> (14) First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt;
      Uh, I think I missed that one.
      > (27) First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea;
      That's not true. I doubt they even feel more threatened.
  • kbir007, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Strategery
    • NYPD, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1I love that word. That ***** can't talk, but I don't hate him. He beat JFK and ALGORE. How dumb does that make them? Pretty dumb.
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