Hurt For President

William Hurt has been elected leader of the free world. Columbia Pictures have hired him to play the US president in political thriller Vantage Point. Dennis Quaid - who also plays the big cheese in the very cheesy satire American Dreamz - is already on board the project. So is Matthew Fox, star of TV's Lost. Hmm, perhaps these aren't the people best qualified to find Iraq on a map...

Director Pete Travis, who got his first job helming TV comedy drama Cold Feet, will be on megaphone duty for this complex tale that follows the build-up to an assassination attempt from five points of view.