Will Ferrell is known for his portrayal of President George W. Bush on Saturday Night Live, but in a new black comedy he will be portraying Ronald Reagan in a role that is already offending people.
The movie, entitled “Reagan,” begins at the start of the ex-president’s second term, where he falls into dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease.
The plot revolves around an intern tasked with convincing the commander-in-chief that he is an actor playing the president in a movie, according to Variety.
The script was written by Mike Rosolio and was so popular on the Black List, an annual catalog of the top unproduced scripts in Hollywood, that it was given a high profile reading by Lena Dunham and John Cho.
The script’s content has already offended numerous people online, including Ronald Reagan’s son Michael Reagan, 71, who called the film an “outrag[e]”:
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