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08-31-2006 05:45 PM |
British TV to show Bush assassination drama
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?Death of a President? shows Bush being gunned down after a speech?
LONDON - A British television network plans to broadcast a dramatic, documentary-style film about a fictional assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush, the network?s head said Thursday.
The program uses actors and digital manipulation of real footage to show a fictional account of Bush being gunned down after delivering a speech in Chicago, Peter Dale, the head of More4, told a news conference.
?Death of a President,? also scheduled to be shown at the Toronto Film Festival in September, focuses on all those linked to the pretend crime ? including nearby anti-war protesters, suspects, Secret Service guards and investigators, Dale said.
More4, which is the digital offshoot of Britain?s Channel 4 network, plans to show the program on Oct. 9.
The White House declined to comment on the network?s announcement, saying it would not dignify the program with a response.
?It?s an extraordinarily gripping and powerful piece of work, a drama constructed like a documentary that looks back at the assassination of George Bush as the starting point for a very gripping detective story,? Dale told reporters.
?It?s a pointed political examination of what the war on terror did to the American body politic,? he said.
Dale said he expected the film would upset some, but defended it as a sophisticated piece of work.
?It?s not sensationalist, or simplistic but a very thought-provoking, powerful drama,? he said. ?I hope people will see that the intention behind it is good.?
?Death of a President? is directed by Gabriel Range, whose 2003 TV movie ?The Day Britain Stopped? showed what might happen if the country?s transportation network ground to a halt.
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