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According to the Hollywood Reporter, Richard Dreyfus might make a trip to Oliver Stone’s White House, entering final negotiations to play Dick Cheney in the provocateur director’s upcoming “W.”
Cheney is the last major position in the Bush administration to be filled, which is occupied by the likes of Brolin (George W. Bush) Thandie Newton (Condoleezza Rice) and Elizabeth Banks (Laura Bush).
The 60-year-old Dreyfuss has never played a U.S. leader, though has had a few related roles. He starred as an opposition senator to Michael Douglas’ commander-in-chief in 1995’s “The American President,” as Alexander Haig in a television movie about Ronald Reagan, and played the president of a banana republic in the 1980’s comedy “Moon Over Parador.”
Check out the calendar for “W” – Is it well planned or what? The movie will be released in October, before Americans elect a new president. A DVD release will follow in January timed to Bush leaving office.
