Sarah Palin Movie: Hollywood Screenwriters Interested

Two prominent screenwriters are game to turn Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's rise to fame in a movie. "I'm always down for politics as humor. I'm also interested in great characters," Dustin Lance Black told Variety.

His competition, Thomas McCarthy, would focus on Bristol Palin's future husband, Levi Johnston. "This young man gets his girlfriend pregnant and ends up on the Republican platform at the National Convention," McCarthy said. "This 17-year-old kid from Alaska standing on the stage -- there's a dark comedy in there somewhere. He was like a deer in headlights."

Black countered that the two could be combined. "Levi Johnston would be the B story," he said. "It would be like dueling narratives."

Both writers were nominated for Writer's Guild of America awards in 2009 -- Black for "Milk," McCarthy for "The Visitor."

Comments

[SpaghettyIrish]

They would need to cast a woman who some people think is attractive but really isn't for the lead.

[zest]

I predict a flop.

[kewps]

Isn't there already a Palin movie out? Nailin' Palin?

[desertdweller]

Isn't Larry Flynt already working on this?

[desertdweller]

Rated R for violence.

Warning: Animals harmed during filming of movie.

Turkeys, Moose, Polar Bears, Wolves, Bunnies

[greatlardini]

Rated S for Stink-o!!!!

[pitako8]

How many books did Joe the Plumber (the author) sell? I would say same interest for Sarah Palin. Nothing worth one's time!

[DrJohnnySkeptic]

It was two months, maybe a little more!

[ICU1225]

BORING MOVIE:

Todd's Snowmobile ride.
The day Bristol and Levi dropped out of school.
The days of Sarah's Beauty Pageant
The days she was an anchor.
How to cook Moose

INTERESTING MOVIE:

The Day she chose to fly from Texas back to Alaska in labor.
The Trooper-gate story
Todd's contributions in government meeting
The investigation behind Levi's mother's arrest.
The schools she attended and why she left.

[ChristiB]

A comedy of errors?

[jalyn]

Am wondering about the legalities of depicting anyone like Sarah Palin in a movie. Would she need a legal contract and would she receive payment for the creation of her "image"?

[roblabrousse]

It will have to be a satire-comedy. There isn't enough material to make it into a serious story.

[Grunty1]

Unless it is done like a mob flick....

[newdreams]

The Polar Express Part 2 - Scams Gone Wild

[kewps]

"The Abominable Snow Woman?"

[jalyn]

If she consents to allowing her daughter Bristol and boyfriend to be depicted on screen, then her criticism of " media invading her family privacy days" are over. If she consents only to her own story, it reveals her true intentions of wanting "celebrity" above anything else.

[Retrofuturistic]

I'd be as likely to watch that as =The Passion of the Christ=. Or =James Dobson at a Purity Ball=.

[cgr]

Yechhh. Unless it's a Tina Fey parody, which is actually entertaining. The real Sarah is simply scary.