First photo of Ed Harris as John McCain in HBO's GAME CHANGE
Here is our first look at Ed Harris as John McCain in the new HBO film Game Change. A photo of Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin was released earlier, we have that below as well. I think that Harris and Moore look very convincing in costume. Let's see if the same is true when we see a trailer for the film. The cast also includes, Ron Livingston, Woody Harrelson, Sarah Paulson, and Melissa Farman.
Check out the full images via EW below and share your thoughts:
Game Change follows the 2008 Presidential Election and will and will focus on the choice of Palin as running mate had on the campaign. Below is a synopsis of the book that the film is based on:
Even before the book was out, its juiciest bits were everywhere: Sarah Palin was serene when chosen for V.P. because it was “God’s plan.” Hillary didn’t know if she could control Bill (duh). Elizabeth Edwards was a shrew, not a saint. Overall, the men from the campaign garner less attention in these anecdote wars than the women and tend to come off better—but only just: Obama, the authors note, can be conceited and windy; McCain was disengaged to the point of recklessness; and John Edwards is a cheating, egotistical blowhard. But, hey, that’s politics, and it’s obvious that authors Heilemann (NewYork Magazine) and Halperin (Time) worked their sources well—all 200 of them. Some (including the sources themselves) will have trouble with the book’s use of quotes (or lack thereof). The interviews, according to the authors, were conducted “on deep background,” and dialogue was “reconstructed extensively” and with “extreme care.” Sometimes the source of a quote is clear, as when the book gets inside someone’s head, but not always. Many of the book’s events were covered heavily at the time (Hillary’s presumed juggernaut; Michelle Obama’s initial hostility to her husband’s candidacy), but some of what this volume delivers is totally behind-the-scenes and genuinely jaw-dropping, including the revelation that senators ostensibly for Clinton (New York’s Chuck Schumer) pushed hard for Obama. Another? The McCain camp found Sarah Palin by doing computer searches of female Republican officeholders. A sometimes superficial but intensely readable account of a landmark campaign (librarians take note: the exceedingly flimsy binding may reflect the publisher’s haste to rush the book to press).
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