Bill Murray to Play FDR? The Not Terribly Funny Ex-President?

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Bill Murray to Play FDR? The Not Terribly Funny Ex-President?

Posted By Dan Gibson on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:00 AM

While my general axiom is to see everything Bill Murray is in, I might need to be convinced a bit before paying money to see this particular film of his:

Our spies tell us that it’s official: Bill Murray has agreed to star as FDR in an adaptation of the British radio play Hyde Park On the Hudson to be directed by Morning Glory's Roger Michell. The project, set up at Focus Features and the UK's Film4, recounts the quasi-incestuous love affair between the president and his distant cousin, Margaret Stuckley, and takes place on the June 1939 weekend that the British King and Queen visited Roosevelt at his upstate New York cottage, in the first-ever visit to America by a member of the United Kingdom monarchy.

[Vulture]

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