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UPDATE (8/14/08): ACCORDING TO HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE, WRIGHT WAS REPORTEDLY MACED AND STUN-GUNNED AND CHARGED WITH INTERFERING WITH THE POLICE, A MISDEMEANOR.

According to the Associated Press, Jeffrey Wright, along with fellow actor Josh Brolin and five others, were placed in custody by the police shortly after 2 AM. They were involved in a bar fight early Saturday morning at the Stray Cat bar in Shreveport, Louisiana.  Wright and Brolin are currently filming Oliver Stone latest film, W., a President George W. Bush biopic. Wright is playing General Colin Powell and Brolin is playing President Bush.

Bond fans who are paying attention to the buzz on the next film, Quantum of Solace (Opening October 31 in the UK and November 7 in the US), may note that Felix Leiter (played by Wright) has one prominent scene in which he meets 007 in a bar in South America, which erupts into an action sequence shortly afterward.

Talk about life imitating art!

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Wright plays Muddy Waters in this Leonard Chess biopic alongside Adrien Brody, Beyoncé Knowles, Mos Def and Cedric the Entertainer.

Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men) is set to play the 43rd President as the supporting cast begins to take shape. Since the the publication of Entertainment Weekly, Elizabeth Banks, Jame Cromwell (24) and Ellen Burstyn have been cast as First Lady Laura Bush, George H. W. Bush, former President and CIA Director, and Former First Lady Barbara Bush, respectively. Robert Duvall is being pursued to play Vice President Dick Cheney but has yet to be offered the role.

W, which was written by Stanley Weiser, will follow Bush’s rise from a heavy drinking college student to the most powerful man in the world. Stone has said, he wants to make “a fair, true portrait of the man,” but I find that very hard to believe considering Oliver Stone’s knack for controversy and liberal politics.

Filming commences on April 21 in Shreveport, Louisiana and is intended to be released for the presidential election in November 2008 or the presidential inauguration in January 2009, according to Wikipedia. It is being produced by Moritz Borman and Jon Kilik.

This impeccable cast makes me very excited for W and I hope Wright gets the role!

“Brody will play Leonard Chess, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who started the Chicago blues label Chess Records and scoured the South, checking out the blues scenes and selling records from the back of his Cadillac.”

Wright is set to play Muddy Waters in the period piece. The film also stars Beyoncé Knowles (Etta James), Cedric the Entertainer (Willie Dixon), Columbus Short (Little Walter), Emmanuelle Chriqui and Tammy Blanchard.

Production began last month.