Will Ferrell Is Going To Play Ronald Reagan In A Movie
We all love Ronald Reagan. He’s an American icon. But what does Reagan lack? A movie.
That’s about to change, as a script just titled “Reagan” has hit the Hollywood scene.
From Variety:
Penned by Mike Rosolio, the story begins at the start of the ex-president’s second term when he falls into dementia and an ambitious intern is tasked with convincing the commander in chief that he is an actor playing the president in a movie.
Who is going to play the president? None other than Will Ferrell.
Sources tell Variety Ferrell is attached to star as President Ronald Reagan in the Black List script “Reagan.”
Ferrell is no stranger to portraying presidential figures in a humorous form. You’ve seen his skits as George W. Bush on Saturday Night Live. Those were gold.
Apparently, Ferrell will also be producing the movie. I, for one, can’t wait to see it..
[via Variety]
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This one’s gonna be fun
9 years ago at 4:12 pm“Robert better not get in my face, cause I’ll drop that MF.” – Will Ferrell
9 years ago at 4:17 pmIt’s a disgrace to America to have that liberal cockbag portraying one of our greatest leaders
9 years ago at 4:28 pmOh yes because it’s such a shame that a liberal comedian is portraying a conservative president. Get your panties out of a bunch and grow up.
9 years ago at 5:01 pmI don’t care who plays Reagan. The storyline of the movie is incredibly wrong. Making fun of Alzheimer’s is not ok.
9 years ago at 5:06 pmAgreed. My great grandfather had Alzheimer’s and it’s a terrible thing to watch a loved one waste away until there’s nothing left.
9 years ago at 6:02 pmMaking fun of Alzheimers is not ok
9 years ago at 11:43 pmWhat was I doing again?
9 years ago at 12:21 amOh right, getting lapped
9 years ago at 9:04 amI don’t know as if Bernie wins everybody will be equal so everyone will have Alzheimer’s
9 years ago at 8:17 amI’m just waiting for the comedy portraying obamas presidency. But it probably won’t happen because it would be deemed racist
9 years ago at 7:41 pmOh Uncle Tom do you need a safe space because something might offend you?
9 years ago at 5:57 pmI guarantee this this is one of the guys who makes fun of liberals for getting offended by everything.
9 years ago at 8:03 pmDouble standards. NF
9 years ago at 9:53 pmI hope John C. Reilly plays Bush Sr., because that would be gold.
9 years ago at 4:32 pmMy fear is that Will Ferrell tries to mock Reagan and portray him in a bad light.
9 years ago at 4:47 pmDid you see what the plot of the movie was?
9 years ago at 6:04 pmI’ve heard this is supposed to be a comedy. I’m all for poking fun at Republican leaders and I say that as a huge conservative. However, making fun of a disease as serious as Alzheimer’s is fucked up. Hopefully this isn’t actually a comedy and will bring awareness to this disease
9 years ago at 4:49 pmI want to add that anyone who would get offended at a comedy poking fun at reagans political career is no better than any other safe space liberal. Making fun of a disease that affects so many people out there, however, is fucked up.
9 years ago at 5:02 pmExactly, thank you. If you can’t laugh at yourself and your favorite people then you might as well be a liberal. In fact I love the SNL skits of Ferrell playing Bush. Those are hilarious
9 years ago at 5:07 pmHere’s an example… Poking fun at Greek life, TFM-style is perfectly fine. Trying to destroy Greek life, Rolling Stone-style is infuriating.
Which strategy do you think liberal Hollywood is going to employ when portraying a man they openly hate? That’s why some of us are untrusting of this project. We’ve seen this play out many (read: every) times before.
9 years ago at 5:46 pmWow seriously? Fuck your safe space. Comedy should be allowed to get humor out of everything, and that includes terrible things like Alzheimer’s. That doesn’t mean it’s funny in real life, it means it’s funny in a movie. Dark humor is a thing. The moment you start saying what is and isn’t OK to make fun of is the moment you’re just as bad as the PC liberals. Sad to see this upvoted so much.
9 years ago at 12:13 amI’m just stating my personal opinion on it. If you are ok with it then great go watch it. I’m going to use my consumer dollar and not give money to them I hope others will too. I’m not going to go and yell at people who will so no I’m not as bad as safe space liberals
9 years ago at 12:58 amWill Ferrell? The guy known strictly for comedy will be playing one of our nations heros and former president Ronald Reagan? Pathetic that TFM sees nothing wrong with this.
9 years ago at 4:49 pmIt’s a joke not a dick, don’t take it so hard. If conservatives can’t laugh at conservatives we might as well be liberals.
9 years ago at 7:31 pmThanks for rewording my exact comment from above.
9 years ago at 8:49 pmThere’s a difference between laughing at each other and mocking a dead president.
9 years ago at 9:08 pmFratshire is right. It is very disrespectful to the office to mock a dead president. With it coming from the left, the intent will be malicious. It will not be in the name of humor. It will not be for laughs. It will be a deliberate and dedicated attempt to destroy the credibility of a president who is too dead to defend himself. It’s honestly a little appalling that we’ve allowed are media to become so completely and unabashedly biased. Using films as propaganda was one of nazi Germany’s main forms of propaganda so don’t be so naive as to think this isn’t important.
9 years ago at 1:49 amAll film is propaganda. And equating this movie with Nazi propaganda is like when lefties equate Trump with Hitler.
9 years ago at 12:56 pmMaking an analogy is not the same as equating. The purpose behind nazi propaganda was far more malicious. However, shaming a well respected former president and mocking a horrible disease is far from noble. Obviously I’m not alone. Ferrel pulled out of the project after receiving serious backlash.
9 years ago at 2:09 pmI don’t want a liberal fuckface like Ferrell playing Reagan. What a disgrace, and, ironically, how insensitive they are towards damaging, horrible neurological diseases within the film’s storyline? Pathetic. Fuck Hollywood.
9 years ago at 4:50 pmAgreed. The only way this would be acceptable is if it is serious and shows people what Alzheimer’s really does. Don’t see that happening with Ferrell though. Find it funny how if this was done about a liberal there is no way it would be ok. Political Correctness is apparently ok when talking about conservatives.
9 years ago at 4:56 pmLap me if you want, peasants, but I don’t see the obsession with Reagan.
He tripled the national debt, handled the Iran Contra scandal horribly, gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants, funded Osama Bin Ladin and the Taliban, and Reaganomics was absolutely idiotic.
Sorry, he wasn’t a great President…and he was a TKE.
9 years ago at 4:53 pmDespite the points you made , you shouldn’t go about calling your audience peasants when you are trying to establish your argument. That doesn’t trabajo hombre…
9 years ago at 6:05 pmIran Contra was handled badly by some of the people on the ground. Your feelings there are like giving Obama credit for the physical killing of Bin Laden.
Also, Reaganomics sent this country into some of the most robust economic growth it has ever seen.
I suspect you call his economic system that because you have no idea what the details of it were.
Reagan strengthend our position in the world when it was left weak. His domestic policies benefited private sector job growth, and he made an entire country come together with patriotism. Thats why he won 49 out of 50 states.
Have some respect and go learn your modern history, idiot.
9 years ago at 9:46 pmI’m a staunch republican Gun_Slinger. He was a shit president and one of the worst of all time. He was a fucking thief that stole money from the Social Security Trust Fund and replaced it with a bunch of worthless IOU’s. He supplied our enemies with weapons. He negotiated and caved in, to Lebanese terrorists demands. He armed and supported the Mujahideen rebels in Afghanistan including Osama bin Laden. They later used his help to form Al Qaeda. His administration had more documented corruption than any President in U.S. history. Something like 145 officials were indicted or convicted of crimes. He also started saluting service members which is completely against military protocol. And if you are a combat veteran like myself, it would piss you off. He doesn’t deserve to salute anyone. He hasn’t earned shit. No president before him had ever returned a salute, including former five-star Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
He was a fucktard. I don’t have to respect him and I do know my “modern” history, idiot.
9 years ago at 11:08 pmNope. No ya don’t.
9 years ago at 12:11 amHe served as a Captain in the Air Force for nearly 10 years during World War 2. I’m not 100% sure if veterans have the right to salute or if it’s for active military members only but going with a gut feeling, I believe he earned that right.
9 years ago at 8:17 amThat is not true lol. He enrolled in home-study Army Extension Courses and enlisted in the Army Reserve as a private. Due to his eyesight, he was put on limited duty and wasn’t allowed to serve actively. He moved to Hollywood to make movies and was assigned to the 1st Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California. Then he was sent to the Provisional Task Force Show Unit of This Is The Army in Burbank, California.
Basically he was an actor with a military title. Just like Shaq is a policeman and Elvis was a DEA Agent.
9 years ago at 1:49 pmGuarantee this is just another leftist hit piece on Reagan. The “Reagan was braindead” trope is a go-to taunt in liberal circles. Ferrell hasn’t been funny since 2004, and is nothing more than a Sanders-loving Hollywood douche.
9 years ago at 4:56 pmYea because kicking and screaming, wedding crashers, talladega nights, blades of glory, step brothers, the other guys, and the campaign were all not funny
9 years ago at 5:54 pmWill Ferrel was the least funny part of Wedding Crashers.
9 years ago at 6:46 pmRegardless of what you think of his involvement in wedding crashers, that’s still only one movie since 2004 that you deemed he was not funny in
9 years ago at 6:49 pmMom the meatloaf. Fuck.
9 years ago at 8:32 pmWill Farrell’s character was the best part of Wedding Crashers. And your name offends me and the Reagan family. Change it before you get nunchaku’d
9 years ago at 10:32 pm