Posted on 08/31/2006 5:47:02 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
More4 risks US ire with Bush assassination film
Jason Deans, broadcast editor Thursday August 31, 2006 MediaGuardian.co.uk
Digital channel More4 will court controversy once again this autumn with a fictional piece, shot as a documentary, about the assassination of the US president, George Bush.
Death of a President seems certain to cause a furore on the other side of the Atlantic when it is premiered at the Toronto film festival next month.
In the UK the 90-minute film will be broadcast first on Channel 4's digital service in October.
The drama takes the form of a fictional documentary looking back at the assassination of Mr Bush in October 2007, after he has delivered a speech to business leaders in Chicago.
When Mr Bush arrives in the city he is confronted by a massive demonstration against the Iraq war and is gunned down by a sniper as he leaves the venue. The hunt for Mr Bush's killer focuses on a Syrian-born man, Jamal Abu Zikri.
Death of a President will use a combination of archive footage, CGI special effects and scripted scenes.
Actors play the fictional secret service agents and other aides who are with Mr Bush when he is shot and recall the incident in interviews recorded for the retrospective documentary.
Death of a President also looks at the differing viewpoints of the pro- and anti-Iraq war lobbies and the impact of Mr Bush's war on terror on the US.
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This is really sick and disgusting
Just a note of intrest. It is a British made film. I do not think we would be able to prosecute them even if the law applied.
Y E S !!! IMHO
You've seen it? I wasn't aware it had been shown yet.
We could if they attempted to show it over here, and if we didn't have a 1st Amendment.
This movie is a trashy, exploitative take-off of the murder of RFK in LA in 1968. UNcreative.
Have you seen it?
Braveheart fought the Brits.
Do you think it shows Bush being killed and then the USA rises up and hands a big fat payback to some Muslim country? Lets not be fools here.
Churchill must be turning in his grave. Britain has become Commie-lite. (Even looks like those old pictures of the Soviet Union; I know, I've been over there.)
Oh, I thought he was King Richard of England. Was he Scottish?
Wallace fought the English. By the basic definition of "British" (bring from that island), Wallace was himself British.
Laughing.... I just realized, you're thinking of Richard the LIONhearted.
There you go. Maryland public school education coming to the surface. My intention was good.
As long as you didn't sit through the whole movie wondering why there was no mention of the Crusades....! :)
Is it an obvious recruitment film for an assassin?
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Of course it is.
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