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Tom Hanks to produce HBO dramatic miniseries on 2016 election
The Guardian ^

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.


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To: TigerClaws

By the time its ready to release in 18 months, the economy will be booming and “they” will be forced to shelve the project. That is my hope.


41 posted on 03/10/2017 8:09:48 AM PST by Tadhg
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To: TigerClaws
Will Hank play a trans-whatever obama supporter? Image result for tom hanks dressed as a women
42 posted on 03/10/2017 8:11:44 AM PST by Leep (Cyclops Network News (CNN). The Most Trusted Source Of Fake News.)
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To: polymuser

Merrill Streep to play her. Will wear an Ivanka.


43 posted on 03/10/2017 8:13:25 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: TigerClaws

Halperin and Heilemann already spat out “TRUMPED: INSIDE THE GREATEST POLITICAL UPSET OF ALL TIME” on Showtime. Why does HBO continue with the lefty garbage? They’re going to wind up like CNN once the “Game of Thrones” series ends.


44 posted on 03/10/2017 8:17:42 AM PST by kaboom
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To: TigerClaws
So, who will be cast as

and so on?
45 posted on 03/10/2017 8:18:30 AM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: TigerClaws

At long last Hillary is going to win the danged election!


46 posted on 03/10/2017 8:20:47 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: TigerClaws

HBO can’t help changing the outcome. Which ending will they choose? Trump stole the election with the help of the Russians? Middle Americans were hoodwinked by a simpleton with a simple message? Obama had done such a fabulous job righting America’s wrongs that the public could mistakenly trust a racist, sexist, crude demagogue?

You know they won’t tell the real story which is that a thoroughly corrupt and unlikable Democrat was exposed by leaked documents revealing a pay-for-play government where the country’s interests were subverted by payoffs back to the Democrats which offended enough people that an unknown outsider was considered a better alternative.


47 posted on 03/10/2017 8:26:34 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: TigerClaws

Tom Hanks should stick to things he is good at, like making ‘Captain Philips #2’.


48 posted on 03/10/2017 8:30:39 AM PST by Beagle8U (Long live Yoga Pants! ( and boycott 84 lumber. Let's bankrupt the bastards!))
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To: Beagle8U

I liked Tom Hanks a lot more when he was doing movies like “Bachelor Party.”


49 posted on 03/10/2017 8:34:43 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: TigerClaws

And they will be using the MSM for all research. /s


50 posted on 03/10/2017 8:44:03 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Gaffer

Maybe—but Hanks cannot hide the fact she was rarely on the campaign trail and some of the weird campaign speeches she made just turned off voters to no end (like that late August 2016 speech denouncing the “Alt-Right” and the infamous “Basket of Deplorables” speech).


51 posted on 03/10/2017 8:46:04 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: dfwgator

I liked him more in the remake of ‘Castaway’ where he drowned without even making it to the Island. The End.


52 posted on 03/10/2017 8:47:50 AM PST by Beagle8U (Long live Yoga Pants! ( and boycott 84 lumber. Let's bankrupt the bastards!))
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To: TigerClaws

If Hanks is negative on Trump’s win he’s a [well, you know what he is]. I like him and I am disappointed.


53 posted on 03/10/2017 8:49:50 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: RayChuang88

Whatever it is about this upcoming thing and how he is involved, I am pretty certain it won’t be truthful, nor will it be complementary of Trump. I envision more excuses why that b!tch lost and how Trump cheated with the Russians or wiretapping or hacking...


54 posted on 03/10/2017 8:51:28 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: SteveH

I don’t know his deep politics either, but I know he is a really good, open minded guy on one subject we both are interested in. He is just like any other person in researching and sharing info. No snobbery or false modesty at all. It is very impressive how down to earth and bright, funny, and open he is in such a situation.

So I will be very disappointed if he sucks Hollywood teat here.

I know his beautiful wife is a deep lefty.


55 posted on 03/10/2017 8:53:03 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

We’ll see how much his wife is involved in the project. She’s a real hard-core Lefty. I think sometimes Tom just goes along with her.


56 posted on 03/10/2017 8:54:24 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: RayChuang88

#5 Tom Hanks will not be telling the truth.

If he would then he would show the murders of 2 people and the bags of money and her being tossed into a van as she had a seizure.


57 posted on 03/10/2017 9:11:24 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: TigerClaws

Don’t trust ANYTHING coming out of Hollywierd. BOYCOTT!!


58 posted on 03/10/2017 9:19:14 AM PST by RobertoinAL
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To: Yaelle

#55 He blamed the United States for being racist towards the Japanese in WW2. He must have missed the genocide they were committing and the attack on Dec 7 that killed thousands of Americans.

Tom Hanks: But but we said bad words toward the Japanese!


59 posted on 03/10/2017 9:27:13 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: TigerClaws

I’m just wondering how they will handle the dinosaurs with the red capes. Costumes or CGI?


60 posted on 03/10/2017 1:07:04 PM PST by Company Man (Best President evah!)
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