A new script about the life of former Weather Underground leader William Ayers is making the rounds in Hollywood, and the co-screenwriter hopes that the recent hubbub surrounding Barack Obama’s ties to the Sixties radical will “at least get people interested” in it. … Adapted from Ayers’ 2001 memoir of the same name, the script has received “nibbles but no bites,” said Hancock, who is hoping to direct the film if it is eventually produced.
It’s not that they are reluctant to glamorize leftists and terrorists. If it weren’t an election year, they’d be on it like white on rice. But even discussing a movie like this right now hurts The One, and we can’t have that, can we?
