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The New Republic is reporting that W. will begin production on April 21st. Earlier reports are stating that the film will be shot in Louisiana. You can check out the complete article below.

W, the highly-anticipated Oliver Stone biopic on America’s 43rd president, has been making a slow march toward its April 21st production start date. Josh Brolin (a dead ringer who can act!) has been slated to play Dubya for months, but in recent weeks, producers have continued to flesh out the cast list. Ellen Burstyn and James Cromwell, of Requiem for a Dream and Babe, respectively, are slated to play Barbara and George H.W. Bush. Thandie Newton of Crash and Elizabeth Banks of…uh…will play Condi Rice and Laura Bush. (First thoughts: too hot!) Welshman Iaon Gruffudd is in talks to play Tony Blair, and Jeffrey Wright is being floated as Colin Powell.

ABC News and Politico, both apparently in possession of a draft copy of the screenplay, offered separate rundowns last week of the father-son dynamic that has filled pop psychology regarding Bush 43. Key scenes include the drumbeat to war in 2002, the “Mission Accomplished” landing in 2003, as well as the softer side: college-age W guzzling garbage-pail vodka; leader-of-the-free-world-age W choking on a pretzel. The tendentious Stone summed up his film in one sweep: “How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?”

Of course, the Hollywood treatment could detract from the film’s political credibility. (Judge/read the first page of the script yourself here [pdf].) But in the end, its success rests squarely with the talent. So, Talkbackers: Who are your picks for the rest of the Bush gang (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rove, Powell, Chalabi, Miers–Perino)? I nominate this guy for VP.

NEW YORK (AP) - Oliver Stone’s film about President George W. Bush is expected to begin shooting within a month with a goal of being released before the president leaves office next January.

A person close to the film says “W.” will begin filming late next month in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Stone has said that the film will focus on the life and presidency of Bush and won’t be an anti-Bush statement. He told Daily Variety it would be “a fair, true portrait” of a man who rose out of alcoholism to be the most powerful figure in the world. Representatives for Stone are not confirming reports that Josh Brolin has been cast as the president with Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush.

“W.” will be Stone’s third film dealing with presidential matters, following “Nixon” and “JFK.” The filmmaker has been an outspoken critic of the administration’s decision to invade Iraq.

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Rosamund Pike and Radha Mitchell have joined Bruce Willis in Disney’s The Surrogates.

Variety reports the film is directed by Jonathan Mostow from a screenplay by Michael Ferris and John Brancato. It is based on the graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele. The film is scheduled to start shooting this month in Boston with Mandeville’s David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman producing with Max Handelman and Elizabeth Banks.

The film is set in the near future where humans live in isolation and interact through the use of surrogate robots – which are designed to be better looking versions of the humans.

From Monsters and Critics

Elizabeth Banks is in final talks to portray First Lady Laura Bush in Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic, ”W”

Elizabeth Banks (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Spider-Man) is in final negotiations to play First Lady Laura Bush in director Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush biopic, W. Josh Brolin is already on board to play Bush. Stone, who wrote the screenplay with his Wall Street co-writer Stanley Weiser, has been openly critical of Bush’s invasion of Iraq, but he has said the biopic will present a fair and accurate portrait, focused on things like his relationship with his father, President George H.W. Bush, his wild younger days, and his conversion to Christianity. Stone was quoted in Variety last January as saying, ”People have turned my political ideas into a cliche, but that is superficial. I’m a dramatist who is interested in people, and I have empathy for Bush as a human being, much the same as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison, Jim Garrison, and Alexander the Great.” Shooting on W is scheduled to start in late April. Banks just finished shooting on Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. She next appears in the Eddie Murphy comedy Meet Dave and in Bill with Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba.

From EW.com