More4 risks US ire with Bush assassination film

The Guardian ^ | August 31, 2006 | Jason Deans

[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.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Let's watch whether or not scenes show up in European cartoons...

[Borges]

Victor Salva is a role model?

[HarleyLady27]

This is absolutely disgusting....to do this to ANY sitting President is an absolute evil, vile, ridiculous item and the person/people ought to be taken out and caned!!!

[conservative in nyc]

They could have made one called "The Oval Orifice XXX". I'm sure had they done it, it would have received outstanding reviews.

It wasn't quite called that, but an adult movie was made about Bill and Monica with a similar title.

The porn industry has no shame.

[Jeff Head]

a fictional piece, shot as a documentary

Talk about conflicting terms...how can a fictional piece be a documentary?

Answer: It can't.

These people are projecting the assassination of a sitting US president by name and should be treated and viewed accordingly.

[pollyannaish]

"I'm sure there will be people who are upset by it. But when you watch it, you realise what a sophisticated piece of work it is," said Peter Dale, the head of More4. "It's not sensational or simplistic, it's thought provoking."

There was a time when people who said stupid stuff like that were considered mentally ill. Now they are considered intellectuals.

I believe the danger is, and has been, in serious danger for most of his Presidency. God Bless the Secret Service.

[seanmerc]

For my money, you can remove the "it's almost like" part.

[Lucky9teen]

I am appauled at how far the left goes to bash Bush and attack him at all levels. They have no conscience and there are no limits to the depths to which they sink.

I can only imagine what President Bush must be thinking, of all that is said about him and now this....

However...he is a man of God and like God said

"'No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,' declares the LORD."

Isaiah 54:17

They'll get theirs someday....

[Eva]

I'm glad that they are debuting this film, just before the election in November. What a great way to rally the "folks" around the President. The left continues to misread the public and shoot themselves in the foot.

Now, if we can just persuade the President to pardon Libby and and include remarks about the partisan witch hunt that perpetrated against the administration, with a great cost to the public as well as everyone in the Bush administration, we will be set to make gains in Congress, instead of a loss of seats.

[Churchillspirit]

Wasn't that True Colors movie a thinly veiled bust on Clinton?

Yes, but the author chose to remain anonymous.

[Killborn]

I could be wrong, one of the people who made Powder was a pedo. There was a thread on FR.

Nevertheless, considering much of CW has a fascination with perversity, sex, violence, and pedophilia, it's no surprise that they can't bring htemselves to criticize the Toon.

[Darkwolf377]

I'd like to ask any lurking DUmmies: If this were about the assassination of Bill Clinton, with the rest of the article being exactly the same, how would you feel?

Answer: That this movie was made by partisan haters filled with venom who groove on death and obviously hate America.

Yup.

[Pharmboy]

[Loyolas Mattman]

There's a bunch of movies that are fictional, but styled as "documentaries." Spinal Tap, for example.

This movie could be interesting in a "Day After," future history type of way.

It's crap if the assasin is a dupe for a right-wing neo-con plot. However, one could equally construct a plot illustrating the depths of the evil we are facing from the sketch given in the article. (i.e Syria and Iran are responsible)

Why not wait to see what the movie first before condemning it?

However, if it is as I suspect it is, let 'em have it.

[winner3000]

Hollywood will only make movies about killing off people Hollywood doesn't like. Remember "Paparazzi"? Talk about fantasy!

[StarfireIV]

This can only be described as shameful, disgracefull, and worthy of justifiable condemnation on the strongest of terms.
That being said, it is also sadly typical of the lunatic mainstream of the Liberals here and abroad.

[GreyFriar]

How dare they have a Moslem do it! Don't they know that political correctness requires it to be a Neo-Nazi from Evanston, IL.

[linda_22003]

Does the IRS now have jurisdiction over citizens of the United Kingdom?

[Xenalyte]

Joe Klein admitted several years back that he wrote Primary Colors.

[MaestroLC]

What is it with the vile libs and their Bush hate?

I'm at a loss for words.