Dennis Quaid to Play Bill Clinton in HBO Movie
Although neither Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon nor Oliver Stone’s W. were huge successes last year, they were successful enough to interest HBO in Frost/Nixon writer Peter Morgan’s latest script, The Special Relationship, about former U.S. president Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The project has yet to be fully greenlit, but if it moves forward, the BBC will likely co-produce while Morgan will step into the director’s chair himself for the first time.
Michael Sheen has signed on to play Tony Blair yet again, having previously played him in The Deal and The Queen. The casting for Bill Clinton, however, is slightly more unexpected: he will be played by none other than Dennis Quaid! Julianne Moore will play Hillary, but seriously, go back and re-read that previous sentence. Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton! This sounds pretty hilarious. I can’t wait to see his impression of Bill. Then again, who knows… Josh Brolin seemed like an odd choice to play George W. Bush, and he did an amazing job. The main problem with this movie, as I see it, is that the premise sounds dreadfully dull. A whole movie about Clinton and Blair’s political relationship? Welcome to snoresville.
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Dennis Quaid played the president in American Dreamz. But it was more of a caricature of George Bush than Bill Clinton. He’s a good actor and I don’t see why he couldn’t pull it off. I, however, do agree that will be a really boring movie. Unless, of course, it is revealed that Tony Blair went down on Bill too.
Posted by Matt on March 25th, 2009Haha, I totally agree with you Sean. Time for this guy to get an offer from Stallone to kick ass in South America.
Posted by Primal on March 25th, 2009matt, you’re sick
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