A Piece of Oliver Stone's "W"

Stone goes Hunting...

Even before any talent was signed or locations scouted, Oliver Stone's "W" was hotter than a Texas afternoon in July. Conservative pundits were ready to pounce on the provocateur for what they said was agenda-driven film making, while Stone and his partners said they were simply telling the story of the Bush White House without any hidden agenda.

According to four Bush scholars who read a draft of the script, the tale has elements that are unquestionably accurate (like when Dubya comes home drunk and nearly gets into a fistfight with his father) and elements that are just plain made-up (like when the president and his advisers discuss high-level policy in a casual, even frat-house, sort of manner).

Rather than just let the experts judge, we decided to offer the first few pages of the script, in which Bush and his advisers prep for the "Axis of Evil" speech, this comes from a draft of the script dated in mid-October and, according to sources close to the project, may have changed in in the mean time like most of Stones' work.

Click HERE to check out the opening scene.

A Film by Oliver Stone