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Oliver Stone casts Brolin, Banks, Cromwell for W

Director Oliver Stone, the Oscar-nominated jack-of-all-trades with a penchant for presidents, is setting in stone (pun so intended) the cast members for his forthcoming W, a biopic on George W. Bush. Josh Brolin, recently in No Country For Old Men and American Gangster, had already been cast as the President for the lead role, and Elizabeth Banks, who just finished filming a Porno, was cast as First Lady Laura Bush. Most recently, James Cromwell was set as W’s father, President George Herbert Walker Bush, and Ellen Burstyn as the former first lady, Barbara Bush. This is not Cromwell’s first role...  read more