Oliver Stone is set to direct a documentary about the life and presidency of George W. Bush, in what the filmmaker describes as a “behind-the-scenes approach.”

“Bush” will focus on the life and presidency of George W. Bush, with actor Josh Brolin attached to play the title role, Variety reports. The script has already been completed by Stone’s “Wall Street” co-writer Stanley Weiser and other former collaborators are set to work with the acclaimed director on the film.

The film’s producers will be Moritz Borman, who worked with Stone on “World Trade Center” and “Alexander,” and John Kilik, who also produced “Alexander” and “Pinkville,” a project whose production that United Artists canceled in December in the wake of the Hollywood writers’ strike.

Weiser’s script was completed before the writers’ strike, the trade paper reports, and many of the “Pinkville” crew switched to the “Bush” biopic when the cancellation occurred late last year.

“Pinkville,” a drama about the 1968 My Lai Massacre that occurred during the Vietnam War, was set to star Bruce Willis and Woody Harrelson.

Borman told Variety that if the issue of financing is solved quickly, production can start by April, allowing a release of the movie around the time of the election in November or the inauguration of Bush’s successor in January.

Stone, who has made movies about Presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, told Daily Variety that this biopic would offer moviegoers “a fair, true portrait” of the current occupant of the White House, which “will contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors.”

“It's a behind-the-scenes approach, similar to ‘Nixon,’ to give a sense of what it's like to be in his skin,” Stone told Daily Variety, adding, “I'm a dramatist who is interested in people, and I have empathy for Bush as a human being, much the same as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison, Jim Garrison and Alexander the Great.”

He did not share his personal opinion of the president with the publication, explaining, “I can't give you that, because the filmmaker has to hide in the work. Here, I'm the referee, and I want a fair, true portrait of the man.”

The Academy Award winner said his film would investigate the turning points in Bush’s life, “the demons in his private life,” his relationship with his father, President George H. W. Bush and his conversion to Christianity, among others.

Borman described the biopic as “a character study of a man.”

Of Brolin, who recently gained broad critical acclaim for his work in “No Country for Old Men,” Stone said that he is “actually better looking than Bush but has the same drive and charisma that Americans identify with Bush, who has some of that old-time movie-star swagger.”