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Home Front: Culture Wars
Plame! The Musical
2007-03-03
Warner Bros. is developing a feature on the lives of Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the married couple drawn into a D.C. firestorm.
"The biggest element of the movie to us is the story of two people who spent their lives in service of their government, and were then betrayed by that government."
Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.

The film is a co-production between Weed Road's Akiva Goldsman and Jerry and Janet Zucker of Zucker Productions. Jerry and Janet Zucker, who got to know Plame and Wilson because all four are involved in stem cell politics, said that the fate of the book won't determine the fate of the film. "Almost everything that we need for the movie is available from print outlets, and obviously we haven't read the book yet because it hasn't been approved by the CIA," Jerry Zucker said. "Valerie has been incredibly careful with what she tells us, it's almost like she is still working for the CIA. The biggest element of the movie to us is the story of two people who spent their lives in service of their government, and were then betrayed by that government."
Gack.
Posted by:Seafarious

#12  So who's gonna play Dagwood?
Posted by: tu3031   2007-03-03 22:52  

#11  Mike's movies strike again!
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-03-03 21:49  

#10  I think it's already in production. Somebody posted some early dailies to the Internet, and you can see one here.
Posted by: Mike   2007-03-03 16:26  

#9  I can hear the theme music now . . .

Plame!
My husband is Joe Wilson
I'm a super secret spy
Hi!
I'm gonna pose for some pictures
People will see me and cry:
"Plame!
I seen your picture in Esquire!"
Light up the sky like a flame
Plame!
I sent my husband to Niger
Baby remember my name
Plame!
Posted by: Mike   2007-03-03 16:23  

#8  I see Hollyweird is still pushing the idea that if you tell a lie often enough, enough people will believe it to make it "true". What a piece of crap! Valerie was not in a "protected" position, her name was in the CIA directory (a public document), and she wasn't "outed". The entire Fitzgerald witch-hunt was a waste of government resources, and Fitzgerald should be sued to the hilt for wasting OUR money. As for Joe Wilson, he suffers from an extreme case of BDS, and it caught up with him. The pair are a POS, and the sooner they disappear from sight the better off we'll ALL be. I hope whoever is backing this loses a LARGE fortune. I suspect this whole idea is being banktrolled by George Soros.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-03-03 13:38  

#7  I wonder if frequent poster Kevin C. might get a part.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-03-03 11:33  

#6  Joe Malchow managed to snag the script for the trailer:

Joe and Valerie
Posted by: KBK   2007-03-03 10:52  

#5  Thought this was a joke at first. Forgot about Hollywoodless's victim mentality towards Bush haters.

Personally I'm hoping for a movie about Cindy Sheehan. No matter how they did it the result would be a comedy.
Posted by: Icerigger   2007-03-03 09:49  

#4  the movie is still predicated on teh storyline taht teh WH outed Plame - it was Armistead - no friend of the WH. They know it, we know it, yt the facts get in the way of "truthiness". Hope it costs a fortune to make and gets the widespread revenue take that Al Franken's docu-biopic got
Posted by: Frank G   2007-03-03 09:21  

#3  It sounds like they are going to spend money showing that if a CIA agent tries to push the Whitehouse around, the Whitehouse can push back. Maybe Cindy Sheehan, Joe Wilson, and Valerie Plame can go on the sob sister tour together.
Posted by: whatadeal   2007-03-03 07:47  

#2  The biggest element of the movie to us is the story of two people who spent their lives in service of their government, and were then betrayed by that government.

Ramos and Compean?
Posted by: Jackal   2007-03-03 07:19  

#1  The biggest element of the movie to us is the story of two people who spent their lives in service of their government, and were then betrayed by that government.

Ramos and Compean?
Posted by: Jackal   2007-03-03 07:19  

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