{"id":237,"date":"2004-12-03T11:25:01","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T11:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/03\/maggie-the-movie\/"},"modified":"2004-12-03T11:25:01","modified_gmt":"2004-12-03T11:25:01","slug":"maggie-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/maggie-the-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie the Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this was too good not to mention. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/anthonywells.typepad.com\/anthony_wells\/2004\/12\/maggie_the_movi.html\">Anthony Wells<\/a> comes the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2004560267,00.html\">Oliver Stone is planning a biopic of Maggie Thatcher<\/a>. Genius!<\/p>\n<p>Stone apparently said &#8220;Margaret Thatcher is an amazing woman and a good subject for a film. I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdm thinking about Meryl Streep to play the Iron Lady.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Europhobia&#8217;s Steve got the ball rolling in an email with a few more casting suggestions:<\/p>\n<p><i>Colin Farrell as Michael Foot (could be his shot at the Oscar &#8211; cf &#8216;ugly&#8217; performances of Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman)<\/p>\n<p>Tom Cruise as Dennis Thatcher<\/p>\n<p>Joel Haley-Osmont (or is it Haley Joel-Osmont &#8211; I always forget) as Mark Thatcher<\/p>\n<p>Mary-Kate (or Ashley) Olson as Carol Thatcher<\/p>\n<p>John Goodman as Nigel Lawson<\/p>\n<p>Christ on a bike. This movie casts itself!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>How about<\/p>\n<p>Billy-Bob Thornton as Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n<p>Owen Wilson as Michael Hestletine<\/p>\n<p>Steve Buscemi as John Major<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Jones (of Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off fame) as Neil Kinnock<\/p>\n<p>Any other suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this was too good not to mention. Via Anthony Wells comes the news that Oliver Stone is planning a biopic of Maggie Thatcher. Genius! Stone apparently said &#8220;Margaret Thatcher is an amazing woman and a good subject for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/maggie-the-movie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}