I was a huge Dean supporter in 2003-2004, so the Deaniac in me just had to share this:
Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney are to star in a film loosely based on the rise and fall of presidential hopeful Howard Dean. The Warner Bros production will be based on a stage-play written by Beau Willimon, a former assistant on the Dean campaign.
Entitled Farragut North, after a Washington Metro station in the heart of the lobbyist district, the film sounds like darker version of Joe Roth’s Primary Colours. It tells the tale of a youthful communications guru working for a principled but unorthodox politician who finds himself undone by a slick and corrupt Washington establishment. Currently in rehearsal, Willimon’s stage-play is set to open on Broadway in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election. Mike Nichols is directing.
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DiCaprio and Clooney will produce the film as well as starring. It is believed that DiCaprio will play the young communications chief while Clooney stars as the Dean surrogate.
Photo of Howard Dean in Kansas City courtesy of Nick Davis
that came out with chapters written by all the people who worked for Dean (Jerome Armstrong, Zephyr Teachout, etc.) It’s fun to remember.
I LOVED the Dean campaign even though I never truly believed he would win. But their ability to get people all over the country talking to each other and working creatively together via the internet has never been duplicated. No one has ever been able to let go of control and trust the supporters the way the Dean campaign did.
The reality [pdf] was much stranger than any fiction could be.