With less than three weeks to the 2008 United States presidential elections, director Oliver Stone’s new movie is scheduled to open in the United States in what appears to be the nick of time. On Friday, October 17, his story about the soon-to-be former president of the U.S. “W.” is set to hit theaters across the nation, as a cinematographic synthesis of George W. Bush’s two terms as president.

In an interview with Reuters, Oliver Stone has revealed the reasons that stood behind him making his most recent biopic.

First of all, he believes that even though Bush is not running for president again, his administration and all that it has achieved or has failed to achieve are to be a major influence on the administration to come. Moreover, he hopes the movie would give some food for thought to American citizens due to cast their vote on November 4, by making them weigh the pros and cons of their previous choices for United States president and maybe helping them find cogent proof for themselves that who they intend to elect the following month really deserves their support.

Talking about what George W. Bush will be handing down to his successor, Stone noted his major concerns revolved around the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terror, as well, reckoning that the president was leaving behind a dangerous weapon in terms of foreign policy, which the nation’s future leader could easily fail to learn to wield.

When asked why he had not made the movie back in 2004, when Bush ran for re-election, the director reasoned that during his first term, the president had been infallible, managing to keep all documents and inside information hidden from the media. It was only between 2004 and 2008 that he had become vulnerable, which made it possible for him to be turned into a character, Stone added.

Speaking of George W. Bush’s character, he is portrayed in the “W.” movie by Josh Brolin, a 40 year-old actor who rose to fame due to his role in ABC’s western TV series „The Young Riders,” where he played Wild Bill Hickok.

In Oliver Stone's movie, Brolin gives life to an emotionally scarred man, struggling to make his mark and overcome his complexes, thus rendering very clear the director's attempt to also show George W. Bush the man and not only George W. Bush the president in his latest work.

While the director chose to match a face to Bush’s story, his choice (Josh Brolin, that is) manages to match a soul to a controversial figure believed by many to be numb-hearted via his role as the lead character in “W.”

As Stone himself told Reuters, the biopic is compassionate towards the United States president, striving to envisage an ego in turmoil, haunted by the desire to prove he is better and stronger than his father, blindly fighting against a nation that has already written him off as a failure and just waits for him to prove them right.