The TV Addict 

Given that poor Oliver Stone has just started shooting W last month, and has been given a deadline of October to get it done, a) I feel for the guy, and b) it seems inevitable the marketing of this film has to start, like, now. So, sure enough, here’s the first teaser poster for the film. Interestingly enough, even though Stone and the studio were suggesting that W would be a serious drama a la Stone’s NIXON, this poster seems to spit in the face of that.

I’ll be honest, based on this poster, I’m not sure I want to see this anymore. Of course I will actually see it, because I’m just utterly fascinated by this project, in a kind of watching-a-train-wreck kind of way. It’s just that this poster seems to indicate it will really be a mocking farce, and yes the quotes are funny, but it’s just so damn easy to make fun of the guy – and it’s been done so much now – that it’s getting old. I mean, I’m pretty sure a three year old could land a pretty good burn against the guy at this point. If all Stone’s W can offer is jokes that have been made before, then what’s really the point?

That being said, I love the dictionary approach. If the poster had just been the letter, the pronunciation, the noun, and the “Improbable President” bit, I think I might be much more on board with this.