Posted on 03/10/2017 7:07:54 AM PST by TigerClaws
Tom Hanks is set to produce a HBO miniseries dramatizing the 2016 US election.
The show will be based on the forthcoming book from Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, whose work also inspired the 2012 film Game Change, which starred Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin and Ed Harris as John McCain, and won five Emmys.
It will also share the same director, Jay Roach, typically known for his comedic work, including Austin Powers and Meet the Parents. Len Amato, president of HBO films, has said the film will “vividly capture the most unique and impactful event in modern American politics”.
It will also continue Hanks’ relationship with the channel; he produced Band of Brothers, The Pacific and another forthcoming series about the second world war.
It’s not the only show about Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the works. Ryan Murphy has already announced that the next season of American Horror Story will revolve around the election, while the team behind Zero Dark Thirty has announced a competing miniseries.
Halperin and Heilemann will also be bringing a new series of their political documentary series The Circus to Showtime. It will cover the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency and starts on 19 March.
There are going to be two of these rewriting of history jobs:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/feb/15/2016-us-election-miniseries-zero-dark-thirty-boal-ellison
They should allow only one of these.
People often say that the Winners get to write history.
But I bet Hollywood hopes to tell the tale of how America turned its back on the woman who could have saved us all, and instead settled for a racist, misogynist lunatic who no one likes.
These ghouls long for the days of the relevance and importance of “The West Wing” and all the other liberal wet dreams of the past.
Hanks is a putz, frankly. He got his start on TV playing some putz living in NY masquerading as women so they could live in a cheap women’s hotel - he starred with Peter Scolari who never made it big like the puts. It was called “Bosom Buddies.”
As far as AHS, there were a couple/three good seasons, but the last two just don’t get any better IMO. I imagine this next one will finally do it for me.
(yawn) They’ve been trying to rewrite Reagan’s election for thirty-five years.
Directed by Michael Moore and Produced by George Soros ?
Another Hollyweirdo pile of lies I won’t be watching.
It will be exactly the opposite with Hanks. It will be a wet-dream reimagining with Trump as the evil one.
He will lower himself if he does a biased treatment of the subject.
Co Produced.......George Soros
Maybe they meant the Whiners!
Who will play the evil Russians?
Actually, didn’t Hanks come come out in support of Trump during the campaign? I recall reading about it...it seeemed that he had lukewarm reasons along the lines of “lets give him a chance” more than any real conviction, but I do recall him saying he was voting Trump?
...or maybe I was thinking of this story, where Hanks said “I hope I get to vote for Trump’s re-election”: http://www.charismanews.com/politics/61349-tom-hanks-i-hope-to-vote-for-trump-s-re-election
Hollywood competing with itself. Big deal.
I think he came out AFTER the election saying “give him a chance”
It’s sure to be an objective piece of art (...or s***).
(They get their history lessons from movies and their news from comedic parodies of current events).
The fact they named the Dan Rather movie TRUTH speaks volumes.
It’ll be a rewrite of history and completely propaganda piece.
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