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Clooney, DiCaprio to Make Howard Dean Movie
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Oct 13, 2007 12:40pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, October 13, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | There’s a saying that Washington is “Hollywood for ugly people.” While we won’t comment on that, we will say that this latest news out of Tinseltown makes us wish that life imitated art just a little bit more.
Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney are reported to be in early talks about teaming up for a movie, which The Hollywood Reporter is calling a “political thriller,” loosely based on Howard Dean’s innovative but ultimately unsuccessful run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004.
Mr. DiCaprio is expected to play the young, idealistic communications director who guides an unconventional candidate but is ultimately derailed by dirty politics as usual. So, that means the heartthrob is playing the screen version of Joe Trippi. (Kind of like Robert Redford playing Bob Woodward in “All the President’s Men.”)
The movie, named “Farragut North” (a metro station on K Street in Washington and just across the park from The Times’s D.C. bureau), is based on a forthcoming Broadway production by Beau Willimon, a playwright who worked on Mr. Dean’s campaign. Jake Gyllenhaal interprets Mr. Trippi in that version. |
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