Sony takes on 'Enemies' for Clarke book (making movie)

[kskiska]

Sony Pictures has optioned film rights to Richard Clarke's nonfiction best seller "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror" for producer John Calley.

"Enemies" -- which was published last month by the Free Press, a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster -- has been at the center of the current national debate about America's readiness to respond to terrorist threats before Sept. 11. Clarke, who was a counterterrorism expert in the administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, appeared before the 9/11 Commission the week the book was published. During that hearing, he testified that the Bush White House didn't consider terrorism "an urgent issue" in the months before the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington.

His political memoir, currently in second place on Amazon.com's sales ranking, offers Clarke's assessment of the anti-terrorist efforts of the past four White Houses, all of which he worked in. "The book, written in a compelling, highly readable style, at times almost seems like a fiction thriller," Amazon.com reviewer John Moe wrote.

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[xultar]

1. I haven't bought Sony for a while...but I will now! Yea! Sony!

[mobuto]

2. You couldn't make this stuff up

Starring Richard Gere as Richard Clarke, Gene Hackman as Donald Rumsfeld, a very funny Whoopi Goldberg as Condi Rice, and Benicio del Torro as Mohammed Atta?

[DAGDA56]

3. Right now Timothy Bottoms is saying...

"Yes! More work!

[codegreen]

4. and Jon Stewart as George W Bush! (it could work...)

or Al Gore as GWB? that would be surreal...

[DAGDA56]

6. Yeah, right...

...and Drew Carey as Dick Cheney...hey, wait...GET ME REWRIGHT!

[AspenRose]

31. Angela Bassett would make a good Condi Rice

Angela kicks major cinematic booty!

[grytpype]

5. Holy shit on a shingle...

They should show it on a double bill with that movie about Dear Leader being so wonderful and courageous on 9/11.

[grytpype]

7. Harrison Ford as Clarke.

Like it?



"My God... Al Qaeda is going to strike, and the President is on vacation!"

[slinkerwink]

8. oh yes! that'd be a great role for him to play!

and we should have Gary Oldman as the president.

[grytpype]

9. I'm thinking that guy who looks EXACTLY like Bush.

Timothy Buttons, or something like that? Really stick it to Duhbya. God knows he has it coming.

[slinkerwink]

13. Timothy Buttons or whoever he is, is too much of a comedic actor

we need a serious actor for this role though.

[Lugnut]

11. Oh, yeah!

I like it. The book was absolutely riveting.

[SoCalDem]

10. Richard Dreyfus as Clarke

Lynne Whitfield as Condi
(with Jim-Bob teeth)

[DAGDA56]

12. Oh yeah! With the picture on edit...

...he is just perfect as Clarke...it didn't register until you provided the visual aide.

[slinkerwink]

15. any others?

[gbwarming]

19. Christopher Walken as Rumsfeld - not because of they look the same

I just want to hear him do the 'known unknowns' speech

[librechik]

36. Jon Voight would be good as Rummy

I thought Tim Robbins would be great as Clarke, but now I like the Ford idea too.

Go Sony! Let's get it out before NOvemeber!

[SoCalDem]

22. Lee J Cobb would have been a perfect Perle, but alas

he's passed on..

[ET Awful]

25. And in the role of Saddam Hussein . . . .

Cheech Marin

[0007]

28. That would be a good one for Saddam Hussein

[stlsaxman]

33. ...and just for good measure- as John Ashcroft-

Tommy Chong!

[Fovea]

14. Hmmm

Clarke -- Harrison Ford
P. ONeill -- Ed Asner
Condi Rice -- Whoopi Goldberg
Colin Powell -- ??? Samuel Jackson???
Bill Clinton -- John Travolta
Hillary Clinton -- Susan Sarandon
Karl Rove -- Phillip Seymore Hoffman -- Brandt in The Big Lebowski
* -- Jim Carey
Pickles -- ??? Cortney Love?
Cheney -- John Goodman???
Rummy - Robert Culp
Perle --
Wolfy --
Gore --
Ari --
Osama -- Randall Cobb???

Ok... fill in the gaps.

[Desperadoe]

16. Do it TVLand style

Don't know who for Clark but you could just use the entire cast of Green Acres for the White House Staff. Just think of it...Oliver, Lisa, Eb, Mr. Haney, Mr. Ziphel, Mr. Drucker....and don't forget Arnold.

I'll leave it to some other imaginative person to cast the actors to their real life counterparts.

[Ksec]

17. good for Sony.

Finally a corp actually doin something good . Whodathunkit.

[keopeli]

21. 'something good' is dubious. They'll make a LOT of money...and they have

three hostages now. They are also promoting their own national agenda. The Japanese, while loyal, have learned to love democracy and capitalism. They have been very successful, and they are becoming more autonomous. They've been threatened by North Korea since Bush* took office. They're being threatened again.

Something good' is something good for them. In this case, it happens to be good for you and me as well. But let's call a spade a spade, and then welcome them onto the team: Truthseekers.

Keo

[Reciprocity]

18. The books a real page turner.

I'm reading the book as we speak and all I can say is I hope the movie will do it justices.

[0007]

20. Yip yipeeeeeeeeeee

[parasim]

23. Brian Dennehy as Clarke...

... would be my choice.

[parasim]

24. and guess which one's Dubya in this one...

[NNN0LHI]

26. That would be my wifes choice too. She just loves that guy n/t

[warrior1]

29. Brian Dennehy, I think he died.

.

[parasim]

30. Not according to this site...

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/dnames-nf/Dennehy+Brian

Of course, that could be not so up-to-date. Perhaps he died since February?

[VolcanoJen]

27. May I recast? I'm thinking Kevin Spacey as Richard Clarke.

A little hair and makeup is all it would take... Spacey's got the perfect, understated, cool demeanor to play Clarke.

[zaj]

32. HOMELAND SECURITY: NBC Sunday Night Movie 4/11/2004

I saw that NBC has come out with a "behind the scenes" made-for-TV movie about 9-11. From the one commercial I saw, it appears to be from pre-attack failures through war in Afganistan.

It struck me as a movie based on Bush at War, but it didn't say that explicitly.

[0007]

34. btt

[Cocoa]

35. Bill Smitrovich as Clarke

[rocktivity]

37. CASTING CALL!

Richard Clarke: Justin Timberlake (so the white teenyboppers will show up)

Condi Rice: Beyonce (so the black teenyboppers will show up)

George Bush: Christopher Walken

Dick Cheney: Kevin Spacey

Special appearance by Al Franken as Rush Limbaugh


I guess Clarke isn't finished profiteering on the deaths of the 9/11 victims yet. If only they could get it out by this October...

:headbang:
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