There is nothing funny about Alzheimer’s, and yet someone in Hollywood pitched the idea that doing a Ronald Reagan movie, starring Will Ferrell, would be just what the entertainment world needed. For those across the nation who have had a loved one succumb to Alzheimer’s, the very idea of satirizing the disease is beyond the pale.
The film, labeled as a comedy, would have satirized the “tragic battle” that President Reagan faced with the disease. It was to be based off the 2015 Black List script, which focuses a fictional story of Reagan winning re-election by a landslide and then soon after beginning the descent into dementia. In the film, a Reagan aide must persuade the President that he is an actor, playing the President in a movie.
Will Ferrell, under the banner of Gary Sanchez Productions, was to film and produce the work.
However, there has been so much blowback from the announcement that Ferrell has backed off.
Read the letter that Patti Davis, Reagan’s daughter wrote to Ferrell on the next page.
HILLARY will have us in the New World Order within the year if elected! She also will continue Obamacare! And keep giving our hard earned tax dollars to the ILLEGALS!
exactly!!!!!
Even considering playing a part in the film is more than disappointing it is classless and certainly a lack of character. I refuse to see any more films of Will Farris! Period.
Why not a movie of MLK fucking around on his wife or obama marrying another man.
And , were it true, that’s a good excuse to make fun of someone’s disease. Bravo to you. You’re a wonderful person, im sure.
Very smart move, I for one would turned on Ferrell in a heartbeat.
GOOD, HAVE A LITTLE RESPECT FOR ALL.
Thats just it! YOU WERE A BABY! I was an ADULT during Reagan, and he was a great president! Unlike the demon dictator in there now! Plus, you shouldn’t think its ok to make fun of illness because someday CARMA will bite YOU in the$#%&!@* Ok….”baby of the 80s”!
Good call Ferrell-Alzheimers is not a laughing matter for anyone
Even though it took pressure to back away from the part, at least he did. Who was the bozos that proposed this idea anyway?
THATS WHO NEEDS TO BE GRILLED OVER THIS…..