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.
A classless and useless man.
David Saldana, how old were you during the Reagan administration? Are you speaking from first-hand experience, or are you spewing garbage that liberal teachers fed you? I was an adult during those years, and I can tell you that Reagan was a thousand times better than Carter (Carter’s answer to inflation was to give out buttons that said “WIN”).
The only thing you remember dumb$#%&!@*is craping your diaper when Reagan was president.
Ferrell is a$#%&!@*…. glad I never watch his crapping movies because he SUCKS…
Farrell is a hack … nothing but a has been
Why post something like this. So many of us have lost a mom Brother sister or Husband to this disease. And it really does make one sad.To thank someone would make a movie about it.
Respectful and smart move.
He should get desease now if he goes through with it God will curse him
Good move
What an ignorant film maker to begin with. Absolutely nothing funny about Alzheimer’s disease. Shame on you!!!