Coming Soon: a “documentary” on the assassination of George W. Bush
Digital channel More4 in England will court
controversy once again this autumn with a fictional piece, shot as a
documentary, about the assassination of the US president, George
Bush.
Digital channel More4 will court controversy once again this autumn with a fictional piece, shot as a documentary, about the assassination of the US president, George Bush.
Death of a President seems certain to cause a furore on the other side of the Atlantic when it is premiered at the Toronto film festival in September.
The drama takes the form of a fictional documentary looking back at the assassination of Mr Bush in October 2007, after he has delivered a speech to business leaders in Chicago.
Death of a President will use a combination of archive footage, CGI special effects and scripted scenes.
Actors play the fictional secret service agents and other aides who are with Mr Bush when he is shot and recall the incident in interviews recorded for the retrospective documentary.
Death of a President also looks at the differing viewpoints of the pro- and anti-Iraq war lobbies and the impact of Mr Bush’s war on terror on the US.
I’ll bet the soundtrack album will be a hit!
Posted: Sat - September 2, 2006 at 06:01 AM