If there were any doubt (and I don’t think there was much), the teaser poster for W should put that doubt to rest. The poster is pretty much just a bunch of random quotes from Bush. However, they are the dumbest quotes he’s ever uttered.

I mean, I know the guy said the stuff. I’m not arguing that point. My point is simply that Stone makes it clear by putting those quotes on the poster that he has no intentions of showing President Bush as anything other than a bumbling idiot. Any talk of actually trying to strike a balance of any kind is just crap. This movie is nothing more than a liberal Bush bashing designed to hit theaters right before the election to try to help elect a Democratic president.

I’m a little bit taken aback by how much Josh Brolin actually looks like George in this picture. I mean, he doesn’t really look like George, but he looks more like George than I would have thought Josh Brolin could have looked like George. Can’t say the same for Laura, though.

The movie itself is being directed by Bush hater Oliver Stone and, supposedly, will chronicle the life and presidency of the 43rd President of the United States of America. Bush is reportedly portrayed in the film as a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with baseball, Saddam Hussein and the conflicted relationship with his dad.

I can’t imagine this film being anything other than awful.

The rest of the cast includes Thandie Newton as National Security Advisor turned secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Ioan Gruffudd as Tony Blair, Rob Corddry as Ari Fleischer, James Cromwell as George Herbert Walker Bush, Ellen Burstyn as Barbara Bush and Jeffrey Wright as General Colin Powell.

Stone plans to release the film in November in the hopes of effecting the Presidential elections.

I have mentioned being a fan of Mostow before because of the work he did in Breakdown and U-571. He also directed Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. The screenplay for The Surrogates, based on a graphic novel by Robert Venditti from Top Shelf Comix, was written by Michael Ferris and John Brancato, who also collaborated with Mostow on T3.

Willis was originally set to star in Pinkville, a drama about the My Lai massacre, for Oliver Stone, but United Artists put that project on hold due to the writer’s strike. Willis moved into this project for Disney. The studio is eyeing a February production start in Boston.

The Surrogates is set in the near future (2054, I believe), where humans live in isolation, and, rather than making the effort to step out of doors themselves, interact through surrogate robots who are basically “better-looking versions” of themselves (yeah, seems like that could be near future). Willis will (once again) play a cop who uses his surrogate (his better half) to investigate the murders of other surrogates. As the mystery of a conspiracy unfolds he will have to do the unthinkable and actually leave his house for the first time in years in order to solve the crimes.

It all sounds pretty darn cool to me. I’m much more excited about the possibilities of this film than I was about the Oliver Stone war drama. I picture it as a cross between Minority Report and Blade Runner although I’ll admit that I haven’t read the comics and really don’t know the first thing about the tone of the story. I will definitely be keeping my eyes on this one.