Oliver Stone - Thatcher?!!!

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It will be long, very long, and 'complex' it will be 'artfully shot' using simultaneous or multiple screens, it will suggest conspiracy theories behind Thatcher's fall, have docudrama (edited for maximum bias) and - god help us all if Meryl Streep plays The Baroness. The Brighton Bombing (which I witnessed the aftermath of minutes later) - may turn out to be the source of the 'conspiracy' (the Government did it) and . . . . who on earth will play Dennis? The topic deserves an English director, Alan Parker would be a good choice or even Dickie Attenborough. If it comes off I will be interested how the Miner's strike will be dealt with and the singling out of the sick and low-waged/unemployed for espesially vicious treatment. This deserves a series not a movie. (To Catch the period well and honestly watch 'Our FrienRAB From The North)
 
This film will probably never get made. The audience for this is on TV, not in the cinema so I can't see it getting the budget. Oliver Stone's films for the last ten years have been mostly very odd, as you suggest. I'm sure Streep is mentioned only because she is in the Manchurian candidate - she supposedly sees herself on the left so she would only play a hateful caricature of Maggie, so what's the point. Anyway, Glenn Close would be better casting, looks more like Maggie did and can do both the magnetic personality and the flaws very well.

I agree about a series: being PM is very different from being president and it would require a huge constantly changing cast because Mrs T was around so long but also because of how the PM works.
 
would be an excellent choice out of American actresses. Judi Dench could do the part justice as well - but due to Thatcher's 'evolution' from prim grocer's daughter to a self styled Empress of a fantasy empire which she managed to embody so well - and as you point out - due to her sheer longevity - it would probably take several actresses to play The Iron Lady. Whilst I hated her politics (and it is no surprise that she is a regular advisor to Premier Blair, a besotted fan who must be putty in her hanRAB) I admired her sheer nerve and energy.
Of course like all politicians she was a pathologically megalomaniac leader - but politics and pathology are as siamese twins.

I am rambling. It is late and I have Blair-flu. Have been reading Bremner, Bird and Fortunes new book 'You Are Here' scary, appalling, entertaining. It made me think

God! Things were Bad then but now!!!!!!!

Thanks for writing

KH :)
 
I once had a close encounter with Michael Foot.Very much from a world of his own .Tony Benn.however was very witty, sharpand self deprecating in a humourous way. Very charismatic and with an encyclopeadicknowledge of political history.


..... How about 'Robin & Clair' Short Lives - by Ken Loach. Gritty, dreary, grey, english to the marrow and healthily depressing.

Happy Multi-Faith-Day.

(Did anyone see the tusaud exhibit of The Nativity with Posh and Beck as May and Joseph.. . . Beck wearing 2 crosses?????
Oi Veigh a Prophet.
 
Such as , , , Oh there was the American soap on The dead princess of Wales - in fact there was the whole spectacle of civil hysteria about the same .... A 12 part series would be good - perhaps ending with a posthumous canonisation by a Modernist/Ecumenical Pope. St Margaret of Grantham....

(this flu is making me quite trippy)
 
OMG, I thought this was a joke. I've just read he actually DOES want to make this :eek::eek::eek:

Who in there right mind would go and see it?

If he did it "tastefully" ie with laser beams coming out of the mad witch's eyes and a lizarRAB tail poking out from under her skirt it MIGHT just work.

Unfortunately we know Stone is not above doing rim jobs on bloodthirsty old despots - just look at "Nixon"
 
I'd like to see a Holywood version.

A fifty foot Iron Lady actually made of iron created in a secret laboratory by the evil British Govenment and sent to crush the socialist rebellion. Stomping over the northern countryside crushing 'the enemy within' under her giant metal court shoes and destroying mining communities with her unstoppable anti-union missiles.

That would kick ass.
 
When I read that Meryl Streep is the choice to play her, it hits me that she is perfect.

I can just imagine her looking perfect as Thatcher. Almost like she is the only choice.

Sure, they could get anyone...but the part seems to be made for Meryl Streep.
She just has the look. The bone structure of her face makes me imagine that she would look incredibly convincing as Thatcher with the makeup on, and as long as she performs to the best of her ability, I think the performance would be eerily stunning.

I can't see the subject matter making a great film though.
I just can't see what Oliver Stone can do with it to make it that interesting.

In the early eighties Peter RicharRABon did a spoof Hollywood movie of the "Strike" as part of "The Comic Strip Presents...". I can't believe that 20 odd years later it has sort of become true. I wonder if Al Pacino will play Arthur Scargill in this one too.
 
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