{"id":260,"date":"2006-08-31T18:16:17","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T18:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2006\/08\/31\/death-of-a-president-to-screen-at-toronto-and-on-more4\/"},"modified":"2006-08-31T18:16:17","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T18:16:17","slug":"death-of-a-president-to-screen-at-toronto-and-on-more4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2006\/08\/31\/death-of-a-president-to-screen-at-toronto-and-on-more4\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a President to screen at Toronto and on More4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK digital channel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/more4\/\">More4<\/a> is going to screen <strong>Death of a President <\/strong>next month and will make its world premiere at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e.bell.ca\/filmfest\/2006\/home\/default.asp\">Toronto Film Festival<\/a> on September 10th. Written and directed by Gabriel Range it is\u00a0a fictional film done in the style of a documentary about the assassination of the current US president. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,1862135,00.html\">Media Guardian reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Digital channel More4 will court controversy once again this autumn with a fictional piece, shot as a documentary, about the assassination of the US president, George Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Death of a President seems certain to cause a furore on the other side of the Atlantic when it is premiered at the Toronto film festival next month. In the UK the 90-minute film will be broadcast first on Channel 4&#8217;s digital service in October.<\/p>\n<p>The drama takes the form of a fictional documentary looking back at the assassination of Mr Bush in October 2007, after he has delivered a speech to business leaders in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><!-- This site\/section combo is not set up to show MPU's -->When Mr Bush arrives in the city he is confronted by a massive demonstration against the Iraq war and is gunned down by a sniper as he leaves the venue. The hunt for Mr Bush&#8217;s killer focuses on a Syrian-born man, Jamal Abu Zikri.<\/p>\n<p>Death of a President will use a combination of archive footage, CGI special effects and scripted scenes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds an interesting an idea for a film but it is bound to cause a major stink in the US, particularly on the right side of the political spectrum. That said More4 is a an excellent channel that screens a lot of good\u00a0stuff (watch out for the war strand next week, especially the excellent HBO doc\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/more4\/documentaries\/doc-feature.jsp?id=89\">Baghdad ER<\/a><\/strong>) so I don&#8217;t think it will be the kind of exploitative propaganda <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/archives\/005841.htm\">right wing bloggers<\/a> are bound to pigeon hole it as. But we shall see.<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1235949\/\">IMDb entry for writer-director Gabriel Range<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcnblogs.com\/thehotblog\/archives\/2006\/08\/doap.html\">The official press release for the Toronto premiere\u00a0at The Hot Blog<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2336960,00.html\">Adam Sherwin of The Times reports on the film<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/more4\/\">Offical site for More 4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK digital channel More4 is going to screen Death of a President next month and will make its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 10th. Written and directed by Gabriel Range it is\u00a0a fictional film done in the style of a documentary about the assassination of the current US president. Media Guardian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}