Coming Soon: Game Change, The Movie? Mediaite Suggests The Cast

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by Colby Hall | 11:05 am, January 21st, 2010

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Game Change authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann joined Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough in discussing their best-selling and oft blogged about book. Halperin mentioned during the event that the authors are in discussions with HBO about making a film version of their best-selling book. Their dreamcast? Meryl Streep playing Hillary Clinton and Will Smith playing Barack Obama.

We can only hope that HBO’s Richard Plepler can make that happen, though that would be a very dear production cost to line up that level of talent. As Halperin pointed out, it will take some real acting range to portray both the public and private personae of the politicians featured in the book.

So, here goes our suggestions of who, ideally, should play each role, and what better place to start than the first family:

The Obamas:

Barack Obama – Will Smith

Nobody is “cooler” than Barack Obama, with the possible exception of Will Smith, who has demonstrated amazing acting range and experience playing real life persona in Ali. Sort of a no brainer here.

Michelle Obama – Nia Long

This one is tough – Angela Basset has the gravitas and acting chops, but Nia Long wins in the likable category, and gets the part.

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sarainitaly

These are pretty good picks!

My only chages –
For Obama: http://jakonda.com/tgif-urkel.jpg
For Edwards – grrr I can’t think of the actors name…. I have to think of it.

And Joan Allen as Cindy McCain!! she is identical to Cindy, and nothing like Elizabeth.
Offhand I would say Martha Stewart for Elizabeth Edwards.

I love the pics for the Palins and Clintons.
BJL411

Cosndiering Will Smith is one of those who slobber over Obama his messiah, I guess it’s only natural he’d play the president.

UPS just delivered this book to me today (via Amazon.com).. haven’t read it yet but via the numerous interviews on tv, it would have been more readable, more believable, if they named their resources and if they didn’t show the usual favortism towards Obama (as one of the writers obviously is a bambi fan and supported him).

I personally know there’s a lot of dirty crap that went down in the Obama campaign to steal this election from Hillary,,, but of course none of the dirty tricks his team pulled will show up in the book.. Afterall, Obambi is the messiah !
sarainitaly

OK, I figured out who I had in mind for John Edwards – http://www.thefilmchair.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/kenneth-the-page.jpg

Will Smith is too healthy looking to play Obama. haha
SWWT

Why don’t you just have Bill Clinton play himself?
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http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=michael%20hogan%20Saul%20Tigh&aql=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Saul Tigh as John McCain!
sarainitaly

oooh, that’s good!
disgusted

You NEED to check the “actor” list from “Mastergate” – This was “REAL-LIFE” – only the names were changed – to ‘protect’..??.. Actually watch it, if you can find a copy – it is the “REAL-LIFE” – NOW!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Brendan-Phillips/503934054 Brendan Phillips

John Edwards = Dennis Quaid, it’s a no brainer.. look at that smile.. i’m sure they’re related
http://www.celuloide.net/images/profiles/Dennis%20Quaid.jpg