Director Oliver Stone is eager to release “W” before the 43rd president of the U.S.A., George W. Bush, leaves office. The film’s main actor, Josh Brolin, who portrays the President, seems to agree. Regarding the fact that not many political films have the courage to come out as the issue is still under development, Brolin said: "Ultimately, it made it more attractive, because it hadn't been done."

Not to worry, though. On October 17, the long-awaited movie will be released in a time where Bush's approval ratings have reached historic lows. Stone has said, during a series of interviews, that he does not judge Bush in the film, he merely attempts to tell his story with no subjectivity by using documented events and dialogue. But the facts look a little bit different. Stone is working based on a Stanley Weiser screenplay, but it's highly probable to assume he had considerable input into the writing. And it is not a flattering portrait. Moreover Weiser told journalists he “had to park all my politics at the door. Before writing this I couldn’t even bear to listen to Bush. I had to turn it off.”

Stone is also known for other political-oriented works such as “J.F.K.” and “Nixon,” in which the problems he had raised are hard to just be ignored and thought of as sheer facts. But “W” marks the first time a film about a president is being released while the chief executive is still in office.

Former Bush adviser Karl Rove told The New York Times on Sunday: "I don't think they made any attempt to have this conform to any reality except that which exists in the cerebral cortex of Oliver Stone, which is a brain with only a functioning left side." Pretty messy, I’d say.