Funny or Die Made a Trump Biopic, Starring Johnny Depp

[deminks]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/movies/trump-movie-funny-or-die-johnny-depp.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

LOS ANGELES — Johnny Depp has played a loopy pirate, a mad hatter and a demon barber. But will he be a convincing Donald J. Trump?

The humor website Funny or Die on Wednesday began streaming a 50-minute comedy that finds Mr. Depp portraying the businessman turned politician, full-blown comb-over and all. Kept a secret for months — no small task in Hollywood — “Funny or Die Presents Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The Movie” was released to coincide with Mr. Trump’s victory on Tuesday in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary.

“It was a crazy, completely nuts idea that somehow we pulled off,” said Adam McKay, a co-founder of Funny or Die, which also counts Will Ferrell and Judd Apatow as principal partners and produces exclusive material that often features well-known stars. Mr. McKay, the director of “The Big Short,” which is a contender for best picture at the coming Academy Awards, added that the site’s newest skewering of Mr. Trump will “with any luck” annoy the presidential hopeful.

“The Art of the Deal,” which takes its title from Mr. Trump’s 1987 best-selling business advice book, may establish a new Hollywood genre: the fake television movie of the week. As a narrator (the director Ron Howard, playing himself) tells viewers at its start, the movie was made in the 1980s and had Mr. Trump as its writer-producer-director-star. But a football game went into overtime, and so an angry Mr. Trump ordered the prime-time special pulled and forever tucked away in a vault.

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http://www.funnyordie.com/

[blogslut]

1. Wow.

That was upsetting. Donald Trump really is like a bad 80's industrial film.

[truebluegreen]

2. zOMG!!1!111!!!

I hafta see this.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. That one is going in my library.

[Brother Buzz]

4. Ron Howard's intro at the beginning, alone, is worth watching

Funny stuff.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. His outro is even better.

I laughed out loud at the final shot.

[Brother Buzz]

8. Yes! The credits merit a mention too

Virtual hair effects by Industrial Light and Magic

[Initech]

6. Trump says: Sit down!!!

I will definitely watch this!

[jdadd]

7. Are You sure this isn't the real film?

[trof]

9. Hard to believe that's Johnny Depp.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5456120/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

[trof]

10. Henry Winkler as Mayor Ed Koch.

[floppyboo]

11. to sue or not to sue...

Can't wait to hear the Donald's reaction! Brave boys, Ronny and Johnny!

[mdbl]

13. Only problem is,

I can't tell the difference from actual Donald Trump video. He's such a circus.

[They_Live]

14. with Patton Oswalt

as Merv Griffin...

[ExPat2Mex]

15. Trump and El Chapo

Depp is, as usual, unusually wonderful.

On my blog in Sonora, Mexico, I write about Trump and his Mexican connection, El Chapo, both of whom I have followed since I was a 20s something in Washington DC in the early 70s, .

I hope you can take a look. Might be worth it.

http://livinginsonora.blogspot.com/2015/10/don-pablo-el-chapo-trump-and-tv-never.html

[Wolf Frankula]

16. Shouldn't that Movie Be Called

'A Rump Named Trump Buys A Lot of Junk?'

Wolf

[OxQQme]

17. Since before I had orange pubic hair....n/t