HBO will be turning the 2008 presidential election into an upcoming movie, to debut on the cable network. Variety reports HBO has optioned an in-the-works book called Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, which will be adapted into a screenplay by Charles Leavitt (Blood Diamond).
The book is by political writers Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, who were inspired to write it when they came to the realization that the personalities in the 2008 election were so bigger than life. Variety notes that Heilemann knew Obama from Harvard, while Halperin had become acquainted with Palin – both writers knew Joe Biden, John McCain and Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton.
HBO had great success last year with Recount, a TV Movie about the 2000 election results and the recount that followed. Variety says the network has refocused their energy on topical and political projects as a result of that success. Game Change is actually one of two different projects they have in the works that include the Clintons. The other is The Special Relationship, in which Frost/Nixon and Underworld star Michael Sheen will reprise his role as Tony Blair, whom he's already played in The Deal and The Queen, in a movie focusing on Blair's relationship with Bill Clinton (Dennis Quaid). Julianne Moore will play Hillary Clinton in The Special Relationship.
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The book is by political writers Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, who were inspired to write it when they came to the realization that the personalities in the 2008 election were so bigger than life. Variety notes that Heilemann knew Obama from Harvard, while Halperin had become acquainted with Palin – both writers knew Joe Biden, John McCain and Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton.
HBO had great success last year with Recount, a TV Movie about the 2000 election results and the recount that followed. Variety says the network has refocused their energy on topical and political projects as a result of that success. Game Change is actually one of two different projects they have in the works that include the Clintons. The other is The Special Relationship, in which Frost/Nixon and Underworld star Michael Sheen will reprise his role as Tony Blair, whom he's already played in The Deal and The Queen, in a movie focusing on Blair's relationship with Bill Clinton (Dennis Quaid). Julianne Moore will play Hillary Clinton in The Special Relationship.
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