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Maybe coming to Showtime. I'm thinking if it were more biographical, it would find a home at Cinemax.

Clinton's made for TV Novel

Bill Clinton's first novel to become a Showtime TV series in major deal
Clinton and James Patterson’s upcoming thriller, The President Is Missing, getting series treatment

JAMES HIBBERD@JAMESHIBBERD

POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 AT 11:00AM EDT

The former president and bestselling author James Patterson have selected Showtime to adapt their upcoming thriller, The President Is Missing.


The novel, set to be published in 2018, tells the story of a sitting U.S. president’s mysterious disappearance with the level of detail that only someone who has held the highest office can know.

We’re told the project was hotly sought after by studios and networks, with Clinton and Patterson doing a 16-meeting tour around Hollywood trying to select the right outlet. CBS chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves — who has a long-standing relationship with both Clinton and Patterson (the latter an executive producer on the CBS drama Zoo) — personally helped make the deal.

One surprise about the deal is that novel’s hook was presumed to be perfect for a theatrical film, or perhaps become a limited series. Instead, Showtime is turning The President Is Missing into a full-blown ongoing drama series.

“Bringing The President Is Missing to Showtime is a coup of the highest order,” said Showtime president and CEO David Nevins. “The pairing of President Clinton with fiction’s most gripping storyteller promises a kinetic experience, one that the book world has salivated over for months and that now will dovetail perfectly into a politically relevant, character-based action series for our network.”

“I’m really enjoying writing this book and working with Jim,” Clinton said in a statement. “And I can’t wait to see Showtime bring the characters to life.”

“The White House is such an exciting world to explore and is made even more so with the unique insights of a former President,” said Patterson. “Rich storytelling opportunities for this series abound.”

Clinton has written many nonfiction books in the past, but The President Is Missing marks his first novel. The book will be published in June 2018.


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The President Is Missing


...that's why Monica keeps having to send her jacket to the cleaners...
 
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...that's why Monica keeps having to send her jacket to the cleaners...


And ... all the other contenders for best comments on the title have withdrawn their submissions. Big Grin




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The President Is Missing


...that's why Monica keeps having to send her jacket to the cleaners...


drops the mic.....
 
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Will probably be as good as any soft porn...


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... with the level of detail that only someone who has held the highest office can know.
But isn't he concerned that he might compromise secret information and procedures ... oh, yeah, Clinton ... never mind. Frown



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Another way for those fucktard Clintons to make money from the Dotards who will read it.


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I thought it would be a soft core porn.


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There will be a companion show about Hillary, entitled "Missing Being President"




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They are already planning a sequel: "The Money for Haiti is Missing".



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Well, this will give a whole new crop of Disney girls a chance at stardom when they get to the part about his plane rides to Jeffery Epstein's private island aboard the Lolita Express.
 
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Just a new way to pay the clinton machine.


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Figured it would be called, chicks I have porked, and you have to pay big time do he doesn't mention you.


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Well that’s ok with me I don’t watch showtime anyway. And he probably needs the money since his cash cow didn’t win .
 
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Anything that asshole did as president is fiction.
 
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“Rich storytelling opportunities for this series abound.”


Send your daughters to DC to intern, if they don't drown her - they will use her as a sex object and then toss her aside.





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... with the level of detail that only someone who has held the highest office can know.
But isn't he concerned that he might compromise secret information and procedures ... oh, yeah, Clinton ... never mind. Frown
Slick Willy was a pre 9/11 president and has been out of office 16.5 years. I would hope that the SS will have already:
  • hardened the security on the tunnels used by JFK, WJC, etc. to sneak in amateur and professional whores. They had a metric shit ton of money to do stuff like that during the GWB admin.
  • beefed up all security procedures post 9/11.



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