No stranger to the political circus, writer Aaron Sorkin will tackle the John Edwards-Elizabeth Edwards-Rielle Hunter-Andrew Young saga. He's bought the rights to Young's tell-all and will write as well as direct. Good for him. Based on the Edwards section of John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's Game Change (which I loved), there's plenty of drama to mine. No matter the quality of Sorkin's script, the film's success, I'm betting, will come down to casting. Think of The Queen without Helen Mirren's dead-on portrayal. And remember how sour all of the portrayals in Oliver Stone's W. rang? Thandie Newton as Condi Rice? Please. So let the guessing game begin.
For the man in the center of the media firestorm, I'd say Dennis Quaid if he hadn't just played another Southern politician embroiled in scandal (Bill Clinton) in HBO's The Special Relationship. So, as wary as I am to give Tom Cruise more work, who else could embody smarm, artificiality, and expensive hair so well?
The role of Elizabeth is a meaty role for any actress - she's a media martyr but a reported paranoid terror behind closed doors. I'll go with Annette Bening, who is showing everyone how good she is at mixing steely exteriors and fragile vulnerability right now in The Kids Are All Right.
Based on how she came off on Oprah, all lost/affected valley girl, I'd have to say Gwyneth Paltrow. Hey, and if the script calls for her to carve a chicken, we know Paltrow's a pro at that.
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After all that Elizabeth Edwards has gone through in the last 15 years, she deserves to have Aaron Sorkin write the movie-of-her-life.
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