Oliver Stone Plans Documentary on Hugo Chavez
After making a biopic on George W. Bush, Oliver Stone is planning to helm a documentary on Venezuela’s controversial President Hugo Chavez.
The 62-year-old director has already spent six months with Chavez, and was even with him during the dramatic rescue of the FARC hostages from Columbia in February (that’s not the focus of this film, but there are two already being planned on that topic). The documentary will focus on Chavez’s “South American revolution” and the opposition to his leadership in Venezuela and abroad.
Stone’s previous docs include Comandante, about Cuban President Fidel Castro, and Persona Non Grata, which began as a project about Yasser Arafat but eventually became a wider-reaching primer on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, after interviewing the now-dead Arafat proved an impossible task.
Stone also confirmed that he is working on another documentary, but denied reports that the subject is Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmandinejad.
