Posted on 04/29/2010 12:32:13 PM PDT by hecht
So Who’s Going To Play Candidate Obama? By TIM ADLER | Thursday April 29, 2010 @ 10:09am GMT
Open TV and Film, the London-based production company, is developing a TV mini-series based on Barack Obama’s days on the campaign trail. ITV Studios USA is co-developing the project. Simon Shaps, chairman of Open, has optioned Newsweek journalist Richard Woolfe’s book Renegade: The Making of a President. The author was granted unique access to Obama during the campaign. Shaps – who used to be ITV’s director of television -- told me: “It is early days, but we are sure there will no shortage of ideas for who plays the President.”
Open wants to get it on air within the next 12 to 18 months. Shaps tells me that what appealed to him about Woolfe’s book is that it is a multi-layered portrait of Obama, not a simplistic hero worship. “The questions that have since emerged about what he’s going to do with the Presidency were, to some extent, already there during the campaign,” Shaps says. “We will get to the root of what Obama wants to do with America.”
Meanwhile, there's no recent word on another project about the Obamas announced by African-American filmmaker Tyler Perry (of those Madea movies fame). The Obama donor back in 2008 announced plans to write, direct and produce "a love story inspired by the relationship between Obama and his wife Michelle" after meeting them through pal Oprah Winfrey. Perry had said he dreamed of casting Denzel Washington and Angela Bassett in the lead roles.
Gary Coleman.
Who cares?
Will they divulge the transcripts from Obama’s education like the media asked Bush, Gore, and Kerry to reveal?
Will they reveal that Obama was bought out by labor unions and the big banks and investment banks?
Will they reveal that Obama hates the US Constitution and has and will bypass it, destroying the US?
It will be another fluff piece, in the same spirit as propaganda films about about tyrants like Stalin, Mao, Hitler, etc.
Harry Lenix
They won’t show any of those things you mentioned, but they’ll showcase how he felt his his white grandma was ‘a typical white woman’.
The guy who played Erkel would be good.
What’s the over/under for when 0 will volunteer to play himself? He is a narcissist after all.
from the original site:
BHO-vin diesel or lenny Kravitz
MO-aunt esther or Patrick Ewing
“Here’s your obvious choice for the lead role:
Harry Lenix”
They’ll have to put Spock ears on Lenix to have him resemble the Kenyan Fraud.
Bonzo.
Who will play the weenie conservative media yappers ( Rush and the rest) who were too afraid that the MSM would laugh at them if they pointed out that Obama’s eligibility was poorly vetted.
Andrew Rubin/Jay Hammer
Kanye
Ted Danzig in blackface?
Ru-Paul
Or maybe this guy.
Will they show his BC?
I'd go with MC Hammer. He could provide catch phrases like "It's Obama time!" or "Obama, don't hurt 'em!" Plus, it's not like he's busy with anything else nowadays.
Or the artist formerly known as Prince. He's biracial. He's Middlewestern. He's ever so slightly sexually ambiguous.
And for non-traditional casting: Campbell Scott. He'd certainly make a believable prep school grad and law professor.
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