By Smalltownhick
Cheney is all but irrelevant now, Mr. Bannon. (click here) Vader died, as did his Empire. Satan was kicked out of Heaven, and will end up bound in chains and cast into The Pit according to Revelations. They are not exactly the kind of people I would hold up as worth emulating. Not the side I would choose.
The Confederacy lost, Mr. Sessions. Their major contributions to history were providing a new term for worthless money, and boosting the flagmaking industry. Not the side I would choose.
The things that the Nazis and the Confederates have in common are:
1) They both lost. Decisively.
2) They stayed in power less than a decade.
3) They caused massive damage and loss of life, destroying priceless and irreplaceable cultural artefacts along the way.
4) They both had to flee their countries in the end, either for the Old West or Argentina, those that weren’t captured and put on trial.
Never embrace the darkness. They always lose in the end. The alt-right will become just another bad guy for the video game designers and action movie makers to use, and the good guys will win again.
And both of you will join your heroes in the dumpster of history....
Why would anyone ever want to make a movie about Dick Cheney? Cheney is not fascinating. There is nothing fascinating about him. He was willing to be an idiot of a CEO of a petroleum company facing potential bankruptcy if the books Cheney cooked didn't receive an infusion of federal money. Dick Cheney is a clown in the circus of Wall Street. He is one of the worst clowns of wealth that ever existed. Why be fascinated with that?
All those that want to see a movie about Dick Cheney raise your hand! See, no one wants to go and Adam McKay will lose the last of his shirts.
If Adam McKay wants to do a favor for the country, follow Liz Cheney around and catch her at being her father's daughter.
November 22, 2016
By Joey Nolfi
After delving into the devastating 2008 financial crisis (click here) with his Oscar-winning 2015 feature The Big Short, Adam McKay is again looking to real-world inspiration for his latest project.
EW has confirmed the filmmaker will direct a currently untitled drama about Dick Cheney for Paramount, based on a screenplay he wrote shortly after winning an Academy Award for writing The Big Short at February’s Oscar ceremony. He will reportedly shop the script to actors in the near future.
Cheney, who served as vice president under George W. Bush between 2001 and 2009, was a staunch supporter of the Iraq war, and infamously shot his quail-hunting partner, Texas attorney Harry Whittington, by accident in 2006.
“I’ve always found Cheney fascinating,” McKay told Deadline, which first reported news of the film’s development. “Questions of what drove him, what his beliefs were; but once we started digging I was astounded at how much he had shaped modern America’s place in the world and how shocking the methods were by which he gained his power.”...
