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Thursday, March 13, 2008 | 7:42pm
Ed Norton’s Class 5 Films Shopping Obama Documentary Flick
You’ll be surprised how long the cameras have been rolling.
Yesterday Mike brought you the trailer for The Incredible Hulk staring Edward Norton . Today The Daily Variety is reporting that the actor and now producer and his Class 5 Films are looking for offers for his documentary about the historic presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama. Ed Norton huh?
It looks Norton got lucky on this one because his directors Amy Rice and Alicia Sams actually began shooting before Obama declared candidacy and long before he would actually make noise as a viable contender and now front runner for the Democratic Nomination.
So I know what you’re asking…is this another Obama love fest? Well Norton says his motivation was not to glorify Obama but the idea was conceived after Obama’s memorable address to the Democratic National Convention back in 2004.
“We were all so struck by Barack’s speech [that he and his Class 5 partners Bill Migliore and Stuart Blumberg and the directors] talked about how exciting it was to see someone from our generation, not our parents’, make his presence felt in such an inspiring way,” Norton told Daily Variety. “At the time, he was the new senator from Illinois. None of us had voted for him or contributed to his campaigns. None of us was saying, ‘I want to back this guy for president.’ It was more this generational experience, of seeing someone we felt represented us in a very unique and fresh way, and the desire to explore what would happen to the first person our age who staked a claim to national leadership.”
Talk about foresight and intuition. Looks like they’ll have a winner regardless of the outcome in November. Naturally Norton said the filmmakers will follow Obama through the duration of his White House run.
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they should see if they can drum up the money for a october release. That would be the ultimate promotion for Obama.
I think Norton wanted to stay away from endorsement of any kind but rather wanted to chronicle the presidential hopefuls quest. Which I might add he probably assumed would have ended by now. Lucky duck.
Ok now what makes this “historic”? Why a documentary? Maybe its because he is the FIRST black man that had a legitimate shot at the white house? Hmmm….
Remember Nani, Norton started rolling the cameras long before he became a legitimate candidate. He just thought he was an interesting subject that would be appealing for people to learn about as he decided to run for president but no one expected him to still be in the race let alone be winning it.
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