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It may be in bad taste to talk about it now, but I do think it's "inevitable" they'll make a TV movie out this one. I'm still planning to see the ones about the wife-killing Peterson's (Dean Cain as Scott Peterson and Rob Lowe as Drew Peterson, no relation). I'm surprised they never made one about Blago, I'm still holding out for Steve Carell to play him as the self-centered twit he is. A movie about Illinois' other infamous Governor, George Ryan, would be great too, if it was independently made and not made by the mainstream media and Amnesty International types that think he's a saint. Jack Nicholson looks nothing like George Ryan but with right wig, makeup, and wardrobe he could nail ol' George... he plays arrogant evil SOB's very well. I could just picture Nicholson's Ryan scornfully pardoning every scumbag on death row with the stroke of a pen in the middle of the night.

Anyway... I like Impy's suggestions... David Krumholtz as the older dead brother and Shia LaBeouf as the younger one they caught are inspired casting choices, I'm sick to death of LaBeouf though. Krumholtz usually has hair long whereas LaBeouf has his short, but if you switched their haircuts like in these photos, it could work:

AuH20Republican's suggestion of Dustin Hoffman (probably can't afford him for a TV though) in Rainman mode as the "estranged Uncle" is great too. His hair is too gray now though, needs to be dyed a shade darker. It would really irk the left if a bunch of Jews were cast as Muslims (though it's been done many times before, like Alfred Molina as Dr. "Moody" Mahmoody in Not Without My Daughter)

One suggestion of my own: Colin Quinn as MSNBC's Chris Matthews (he already played a news anchor during the Weekend Update segments of SNL), following the bombing and warning hysterically that the bombers must be Obama hating right-wing tea party members:

Do it, Hollywood!

I laughed uncontrollably when I saw the first promo for the Drew Petersen movie (Scott Peterson promo too but I don’t recall actually seeing that movie) and I wondered what the hell happened to Lowe’s career, he has become Eric Roberts minus the sister.

But I watched the movie and Rob Lowe IS Drew Peterson, he is more Drew Peterson than the real Drew Peterson.

People say it was like he was doing an SNL skit, I think it was so inspired and dead on that it blew everyone’s minds. He BECAME that douchebag, I am certain the real Drew acted exactly like that. Lowe was robbed of an Emmy, wasn’t even nominated. I may be insane but I’m not kidding, I’d give him an Emmy.

I remember that Gary Condit mistresses, Amber Frey, when I first saw her I noticed she looked so much like Lowe’s “The Left Wing” co-star, Janel Moloney, that I said if they ever made a movie about it that Janel would get the role. And sure enough, she did.

Which brings me to the Uncle Ruslan role, Jurgen Prochnow IS Uncle Ruslan. He’s German but could nail it. He played the former Soviet General turned Kazakhstan dictator in “Air Force One”. Speaking of Eric Roberts he’d be another another great choice if he could handle the accent.

Quinn as Chrissie Matthews, inspired. But you know who actually played Matthews on SNL and was dead on? Darrell Hammond. I think Quinn could make a great Bill O’Reilly.

This is fun despite or perhaps because it’s in bad taste, how else to cope with this crap but with fun/humor? Otherwise our heads would explode.

Being a casting director for a major (or any) movie must be awesome. Especially with the desperate young actresses. ;p