Denzel Washington to Star in Barack Obama Biopic

just a silly rumor don't see this happening

it just wont happen.

its a comments he made on the Jonathan ross shopw on friday,of the cuff.when asked would you play the part he said 'yes' then made a joke about will smiths ears,thats it.no offers.pure speculation.

Can the guy at least finish his first fuckin term. Why is Hollywood in such a rush to make this movie. Obama hasn't even entered into his sex scandal years yet...

Obama stoy isn't finsh yet.

obama bin laden should play obama

It's not true, He said this on friday night on the Jonathan ross show his words were "The storys not told yet. You gotta have a story, he's got enough on his plate" He said maybe one day, but the rumour is just a rumour nothing more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvdKUA28tZ0&feature=related

Don't use the fucking Daily Mail as a source!

I really hope this isnt true... bottom line politics and pop culture should only mix to a certain extent... and this would go way too far imo though..

Worst Previews, really going down the tubes...

Bullllllllshiiit.

This will never happen...at least in my lifetime

either this is true or these people at hollywood have literally nothing better to do with their time

"have very similar ears"..lol

"The only problem is he has bigger ears than me."..lol

Denzel looks younger than the 50+ years that he is. Smith younger than the 40+. But Denzel would be a better fit.

How about Gary Coleman to play the President? Put him on (a lot of) boxes...

'Wha'cho talkn' 'bout North Korea?!'

if cate blanchett can be bob dylan, and p diddy can be james bond, why cant gerard butler be obama?

I love Denzel Washington but I always thought the actor Harry Lennix looked really close to Obama and should play Obama.

Are you guys quoting The Daily Mail now too? They're as bad as National Enquirer.

COME ON! WTF?! NO! FUCK NO! THIS IS COMPLETE NONSENSE! OLIVER STONE MAKING "W" WAS NONSENSE! WHAT HAS THIS MAN DONE SO FAR?! NOTHING!! FUCK FUCK NO NO NO!!!

JRprime, you are hilarious. You don't have to look similar to a person to portray them in a movie. I honestly don't know why any actor would be interested in a role where the movie would have a great opening and then fizzle out, kind of like reality in this situation.

NO OBama MOVIE!

Must be a pretty slow fucking news day.

It's been like 14 hours since this was posted.

Why is Hollywood so racist? They're only talking about Black actors protraying Obama. Why aren't they talking about Indian Actors or Hispanic actors? I say give J. Lo a shot.

John Cena should play Obama, he can give the F-U to racism and if they paint him black and stand him in a shadow "you cant see him"

They should do a FDR biopic as a dry run. I mean, only FDR, out of all the other presidents, expanded the federal government faster and deeper than Obama.

I mean, give the dude a chance. When you look weak, and you're holding a 'kick me' sign to all the pissed off nuclear-oriented autocracies of the world, a biopic should wait till the subject character starts World War III. At least. Or, as Dick Morris says, wait till Obama nationalizes the banks. THEN you have a movie.

can we wait until after his presidency?

A lot of good comments here. But if it IS to happen... I think the major consensus is... it's way too early for such a story. What's wrong Hollywood, you douche-bags run out of re-makes, re-do's, re-boots already you fucking unoriginal, box-thinking cock/bloodsuckers?!

I think to do a story on Obama's presidency is racist. It's like they just have to tell the story of how some black guy crawled his way to the presidency. But no need to dwell on the inaccuracies. Like when a black guy succeeds, it's a moment for cake and balloons, book deals and biopics. Celebration!

So he's president. He's black. So fucking what?

It's the black population all over his blackness. His mother (that raised him after Pops fucked off) is all white. So, he's as white as he is black. I don't know why America doesn't recall this fact as often. He's as white as he is black. There's a 27 year-old on uTube that does impressions of the President... this guy just nails it. Pretty damn funny.

See, that's the most racist part of the entire situation. People are so damned skin deep. They don't care about his ancestry or his genetic makeup. His racial heritage is totally irrelevant to them. They just see his dark skin and think 'black guy'. If he was a mixed guy that was white but a little darker than WASP, no one would have given a shit about him wasting away in the Senate. The guy was, in part, manufactured by racist white people that still refuse to live in a color blind world. They helped get him elected because of his skin color and his politics.

Like I give a fuck how much melanin the guy has in his skin.

I've never given his skin color a 2nd. thought. I just like it that he's personable and sharp. Bush handed him a plate of really, REALLY bad shit. I just hope and wish people would give him SOME time to turn the mess that is the US financial situation around. People are wanting miracles in 6 months... guess what folks... 8 years won't fix an $11.5+ trillion debt! AND when Obama fucks up... HE ADMITS IT! That's already LIGHT YEARS ahead of Bush... let alone any other President. But seriously, I've never given his 'color' a 2nd. thought.

Ranger, in all fairness, I wouldn't have apologized either, if I was Bush. What was he supposed to apologize for anyway? Standing in front of a Mission Accomplished banner after the successful capture of Baghdad? After a handful of military brats committed some grievous acts of hazing over at Abu Ghraib? A financial meltdown as mush a fault of liberal economic policies and Democratic senators as anyone? The leaking of Valerie Plame's name he had nothing to do with? The yellow cake issue in Niger that was never fully resolved one way or the other? 9-11, an even 8 Clinton years in the making? Or the invasion of Iraq, twelve years overdue??

Yeah, like the media would ever show Obama making a mistake. Take a look at Youtube for Obama speech gaffes. He's a blundering idiot, more so than Bush! But you'd never hear it through NYT, CNN or MSNBC! Funny, huh? But every time Bush made a verbal mistake, not the sputtering stuttering verbal failures of Obama, it was noted duly, as if he had killed a kitten. They even have BOOKS just to discuss Bush's verbal blunders.

If I was Bush, under that Day One scrutiny and negative criticism, I too would've told the media to take a hike. i would've done my job and apologized only for the actual bona fide mistakes. Not for spying on terrorists, or tracing calls to and from terrorists, or the Patriot Act even Dems signed off on. I would've done my job with stubborn cast iron head.

There's a lot to fault Bush with, but when you have only National Review, Fox News, and half the time, Wall Street, on your side to cover your ass, you're already ducking arrows. To apologize is to signal you've been hit and bleeding. Like sharks, the media smell blood faster than anyone or any thing.

All fair points Mink.

But we still agree Lohan is still a cunt, right?

Absolutely, Ranger. Abso-fucking-lutely.

Sweet.

Mark my words. The media will turn on Obama. It's what they do. They're a business like any other and the way they make money is to make a scandel out of anything and everything. One day they'll get tired of Obama asking them to submit their questions before the live event and turn on him. And Lohan might be a cunt, and might even like cunts but that doesn't necessarily mean she has a cunt.

@FBO - well said and agreed (on Obama, the media turning on him and LowHung).

All of these comments and nobody has mentioned that the first sentence of this article isn't even really a fucking sentence. Read that fucking thing out loud and see if it makes sense.

Why doesn't this site use fact checkers or copy editors? Surely the money they get from Verizon and Staples and Dragonball Z and everything else could pay for some fucking quality control.

@mink I dont know if they are still planning on doing it but i remember reading a while back, that Martin and Leo were gonna do a FDR bio, but that could be dead by now...