Gibney’s Abramoff Scandal Doc
Politico‘s Jeffrey Ressner is reporting that Alex Gibney, director of the Oscar-winning doc Taxi to the Dark Side, is now making a documentary about the Jack Abramoff scandal, which will involve a close look at GOP presidential candidate John McCain‘s role in investigating the affair. The film, currently titled Casino Jack and the United States of Money, will “come out later this year.”
Director George Hickenlooper has informed, meanwhile, that he’s developing a dramatic feature about the Abramoff scandal called Bagman. He says he’s partnered with producer George Zakk (a Vin Diesel associate who’s exec-produced several of Deisel’s films, including Find Me Guilty) on the project, and that the writer is Norm Snider. Hickenlooper says it’s “close to a finished script.”
Casino Jack “should give viewers a greater understanding, in a blow-by-blow way, of how the political process works, particularly with regards to lobbying,” Gibney tells Ressner. “This movie will have it all: wild international intrigue, money changing hands in unexpected places, etc. It will be fun. As someone said about an earlier picture I made: ‘It’s a comedy that turns into farce and ends up in horror.’”
McCain “of course” comes up in the film, adds Gibney, who has “put the word out” to the Arizona senator’s presidential campaign for comment. “He certainly plays a role — he ran the [Abramoff] hearings, so he’s unavoidably involved in the story. Then the questioning extends. Upon further investigation, one looks at his motives and things like that. I don’t want to say much more than that, but he is a character in the story.”
So, he’s going to do a better job than Frontline did a couple of years ago…??? I don’t think so. But hey, it might be good for a couple of votes for Obama…there are plenty of ways to earn kneepads in this campaign.
Great title imo.
Actually it wasn’t a Frontline documentary, it was a Bill Moyers documentary that was pretty sensational called Capitol Crimes. This was the most outrageous scandal since Watergate. I highly recommend the Moyers doc available through PBS.com.
I’d rather Hickenlooper do a film on Randy Cunningham.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/003262.php
War hero AND war profiteer. And that hot tub story, yeesh.
My friend’s Mom went to elementary school with Jack Abramoff. He got kicked out of the class presidential race because he sold brownies to booster his campaign. Some people never change.
It would be nice if this could come out before the election.
I watched WALKER again last night on DVD (with the Alex Cox/Rudy Wurlitzer commentary track) and Ed Harris could be a great John McCain.
Ed Harris is too robust, and McCain has that thin, Carson-like voice.
I was gonna suggest Ron Howard when the perfect name came to me — his brother, Clint. He even has the same oddly-shaped Humpty Dumpty head.
Jeremy Piven as Jack Abramoff. Kevin Tighe as John McCain. Kevin Spacey as Mike Huckabee. Mitt Romney as Mitt Romney.
I’m not sure any human actor, including Mitt Romney himself, could do justice to the Mitt Romney we saw on the campaign trail. I’m convinced the Mitt Romney we saw was purely a CGI creation.
“It would be nice if this could come out before the election.”
What difference would it make? All of these documentaries preach to the converted.
Snooze. Total preaching to the converted.
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