HBO Reportedly Planning Movie About Roger Ailes & Fox News…Produced by Joe Scarborough & Mika Brzezinski
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HBO is reportedly developing a film about Fox News chief Roger Ailes, with MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski as executive producers. (Image source: Reuters)
HBO is reportedly developing a film about Fox News Channel chief Roger Ailes, with MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski as executive producers.
From Deadline Hollywood, which broke the news:
It’s based on the upcoming manuscript by media writer Gabriel Sherman who has written two cover stories for New York magazine on Ailes and Fox News, including his mammoth article “The Elephant In The Green Room” which came out a little more than a year ago and prompted complaints from the Fox News CEO. Last year, Sherman signed a book contract with Random House which at one point was tentatively titled “The Loudest Voice in the Room: An Inside Account of the Rise of Fox News” but isn’t formally titled now.
(Related: HBO Apologizes for Putting George Bush‘s Head on a Pike in ‘Game of Thrones’: ‘Bad Taste’)
According to Deadline’s Nikki Finke, Sherman’s book is still in the research stage and set for a summer 2013 publishing date. Securing film rights for a book before it’s even published is not uncommon for the premium cable network, which recently cast a critical eye at Sarah Palin in the film “Game Change” about the 2008 presidential election.
“HBO prefers to take on Fox News through Ailes. The idea is that it should make Fox News look like a Mafia, and you get into this through Ailes, sidestepping Murdoch, not approaching the story head on,” a source told Finke in describing the film.
An HBO executive cautioned the film is still very much in the early planning stages.
“Nothing much to say. No book yet to read. No script. We’ll wait to see what the script looks like and then decide whether to develop further,” the executive said.
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Comments (47)
CHESTER MOUSE
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:00pmThey might learn how a cable channel can succeed, and how to pick employee’s that would BRING viewers to the channel, not drive them AWAY!
No one is going to watch it, no one with a brain anyway, as if putting slumborough’s name on it people are going to rush to watch it. I doubt it.
Say what you want about FOX, they’re #1! The guy is doing something right.
Report Post »lynda1276
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 6:51pmgot rid of HBO a few years ago-
Report Post »bfavre71
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:19pmHBO-Hebrews Blow Obama
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:32pmAhh! Shucks, I dropped HBO 2 years ago on my Dish acct. I told them that they had just got to Liberal for this Democrat. This means I won’t get to see it.
Report Post »BJC
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:39pmIf you folks haven’t cancelled HBO yet after all the hate from Bill Maher, Sarah Palin bashing and now this, then you are supporting Barack Hussein Obama. When will enough be enough for you TV folks? I quit watching TV over 10 years ago and don’t miss it one bit.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:49pmOh good. A fictional comedy written by two women!
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:41pmI hope they don’t appear in it too. Another must-not-see. Maybe they’ll get PIG maher to do a cameo. (I just made myself throw up in my mouth a little…)
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:30pmThat ought to be “fair and balanced.”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:46pmYep, just like the Palin movie and that classic “W.” movie was. I tried to watch that a few years after it came out and it was like an SNL skit. Horrible. Can’t wait for the Obama movie, they’ll have him giving sight to the blind and making cripples walk.
Report Post »socialism.rocks
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:41pmfair and balanced by fox news standards is orielly playing a clip out of context protraying himself as the victim while demonizing the opposition thats all fox news is thats all it has ever been now the left wing has learned- the same game…and you demand fair and balanced ha ha ha ha
the poor christians poor white people hustler channel …. anyone who says otherwise is just laughable
they would never put my sort on fox news educated socialist intelligent…..there is not a single conservative i could not destroy………
i destroy you rightwingers everywhere online every-day all day and its too easy.. i am still waiting for a right-intellectual to come out to play…….
Report Post »marine249
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:43pmsOCIALISM SUCKS
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:24pmWho would play Glenn? I wonder if Ralphie from “A Christmas Story” is available?
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:30pmGood call.
Report Post »JohnLarson
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:19pmStop acting like you poor rednecks could even afford HBO is you wanted to.
You guys already have to sacrifice beer money for Glenn beck’s pay-per-view channel as it is.
GoT ftw
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:05pmI am sure that HBO will be fair and balanced (sarcasm).
Report Post »AllLost
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:51pmHBO is a subscription based service. The solution is simple. Game of Thrones is not good enough to keep my money flowing to these losers….time to read the books.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:00pmAgreed. I love Game of Thrones, but the ‘six episodes per season’ nonsense gets really old. By the time you’re back into the swing of the story line the season is over again.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:02pmI lost interest with HBO years ago especially when they started playing Smokey and the Bandit on prime time Friday night…HBO is as insignificant as is MTV and IF I had a choice I would have MTV removed from my cable subscription……
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:51pmWhat else would one expect from HBO. Run by Obama mom’s
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:50pmA movie about Fox news produced by their competitors? You know that it will be fair.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:48pmWhy doesn’t someone do a movie on our Kenyan born Muslim president with a fake social security number ??? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm ??????
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:58pmbecause all comedy central and hbo care about is the young minless drones that are easily corrupted by what they see on television. the truth eludes them all it doesn’t fit in their agenda
Report Post »Depat
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:47pmWith Joe and Nika in the catbird seat, what could go wrong. I’m sure it will be “Fair and Balanced”.
DUH!! NOT!!!
Report Post »MBA
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:46pmmore liberal fiction. Whatever!
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:37pmCancelled HBO years ago. NoBama doesn’t need to take over the media…they are falling over each other and lining up to follow him.
Tell a lie long enough without rebuttal and it becomes the truth.
NoBama 2012
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:35pmProduced by Joe and Mika. Now that ought to be a quality piece of…of….mmm…of…work. That’s it, a quality piece of work.
Report Post »jackact
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:24pmAwesome.
Report Post »Now we can get the true RINO perspective from Scarborough.
The boys (Kristol & Barnes) @ National Review can assist.
When does RINO hunting season commence?
:(
Constructionist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:22pmWorking titles for the new film include:
“Where have all our ratings gone?”
and
“Why you’ve never heard of Joe Scarborough or Mika Brzezinski.”
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:46pmMeeka and CuppaofBlow can barely make it through their biased cuppa show.
I guess Meekas DaddyBrezzy will be an advisor.
ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
HBO is a joke.
Report Post »So are the dingbats making this movie.
OMG 2012
GeorgieJo
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:02pmRambo’s brother Ari Emmanuel is the hollyweirdo representing meeka and cuppa
Report Post »BIASED?
These jokers have no clue how lame they look/
Too bad they won’t expose GE Jeffy Immelting
but then again he is meekacheekas boss.
Immelting sat with Obummer on jobs council laughing about shovel ready jobs.
Nobody laughing NOW
OMG 2012
cookcountypatriot
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:19pmlol who better to produce and direct this garbage…a rival failing network decides its time to expose the lies of fox..lol yeah right…these 2 dingbats need a comfy padded cell …carbon copies of the nazis of the 30,s……………………………………………..dingbats
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:16pmWonder if Mika will share the talking points she gets from the WhiteHouse.
Report Post »shogun459
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:13pmPropaganda machine is running on high.
Report Post »socialism.rocks
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:25pmlmao fox news has been infiltrated you have no idea michelle malkin parents are illegal..she is pretends to be anti illegal but sets you up you all are so stupid you have no idea
Report Post »laura ingrham is a fake christian who sets off christians to get you going-she is a athiest really and was keith-olbermans girlfriend
Kimberly Guilfoyle husband is that socialist guy from california she was a prosecutor alright but she was a liberal one
republicans are mentally retarded who are being set up by fox news and glen beck government stooges who spew lies- to get conservatives to attack government watch they will all turn on you idiots and when they do its going to be funny
Iamnotanumber
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:40pmAnd your just a hateful self proclaimed socialist trying to rain on the upcoming parade of your political doom…loser!
Report Post »marine249
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:49pm@SOCIALISM SUCK
Report Post »and from who did yoy get
your talking points? msnbc?
socialism.rocks
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:50pmIamnotanumber i am just a hateful socialist just like washington adams jefferson… they did blast one political party in the face the tories…the conservatives…….
sucks to be a right-winger
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:53pmDon’t ya just love to see a socialist backed into a corner and scared to death, funny, very funny.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:54pmsuck to be a left winger
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:13pm21st Century Fox then should produce a movie about BSNBC’s day to day operations. Gee, can you wonder which would be more truthful?
Report Post »Iamnotanumber
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:41pmIt should be a extremely high comedy/lampooning parody!!!
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:11pmI’m sure that will be fair and balanced.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:10pmAnother reason to never “pay” for HBO
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