“I’m delighted that Ferrell had the good sense to figure out this is a dead loser,” former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich told Variety Saturday night at a party before White House Correspondents Dinner, responding to the news that Will Ferrell had pulled out of a the Black List script “Reagan.”
“I hope the people who want to do the movie just drop it.”
Gingrich was quick to oppose Ferrell playing the late president, and tweeted an open letter from Patti Davis, Reagan’s daughter, to his 1.5 million followers on Friday.
“I think the very premise is idiotic and despicable,” Gingrich said. “I like Will Ferrell. I think he is a very funny guy, but I think this would have been an absolute disaster for his career.”
The script, optioned by Ferrell’s production company, centers on the conceit that Reagan had no idea what he was doing during his second term,...
“I hope the people who want to do the movie just drop it.”
Gingrich was quick to oppose Ferrell playing the late president, and tweeted an open letter from Patti Davis, Reagan’s daughter, to his 1.5 million followers on Friday.
“I think the very premise is idiotic and despicable,” Gingrich said. “I like Will Ferrell. I think he is a very funny guy, but I think this would have been an absolute disaster for his career.”
The script, optioned by Ferrell’s production company, centers on the conceit that Reagan had no idea what he was doing during his second term,...
- 5/1/2016
- by Katie Van Syckle
- Variety - Film News
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