The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has the first photos of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks as George and Laura Bush from Oliver Stone’s upcoming film W. Problem is, when we posted the photos last week no one had a high resolution scan of the two photos. Click on the photo above and below for higher resolution versions.
Co-starring James Cromwell as George H. W. Bush, Ellen Burstyn as Barbara Bush, and Rob Corddry as Ari Fleischer. Based on the life and presidency of George W. Bush, Stone has compared W. to The Queen and Nixon. The screenplay was written pre-strike by Stanley Weiser, who had co-wrote Wall Street with Stone. Weiser and Stone read 17 books as part of their research for the script. W. began filming late last month in Shreveport, Louisiana. Friday it was announced that Lionsgate will release the film nationwide on October 17th 2008, just in time for the presidential election in November 2008.
May 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Wait, I just noticed you’re on the cover of EW. NICE!
May 10th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
They are not actually : http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20080508/294.bush.ewmag.050808.jpg
May 10th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Its a good thing, I was getting pretty impatient waiting for a high resolution close up shot of Josh Brolin’s face.
May 10th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Josh Brolin is genuinely scary on this picture.
And James Cromwell obviously entered the period of his career where he plays real-life regal/governmental persons: Prince Philip in “The Queen”, Bush Sr here, Lyndon Johnson next.
May 10th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Th slashfilm.com line is just our clever ay of watermarking the image :P It’s better then putting a /Film logo over someone’s face, like a lot of site