CARACAS: US
filmmaker and long-time Hugo Chavez fan Oliver Stone is making a movie
about the late Venezuelan leader, according to President Nicolas Maduro.
"Oliver Stone
is making a very beautiful film about our commander Hugo Chavez... that
he will likely finish in the next months," Maduro said on Thursday, at
an event in the northwestern state of Lara.
"We are eager for its debut on the big screen in Venezuela," he said.
Maduro said that one of Stone's producers informed him about the film while on an official trip in Paris.
Chavez
led Venezuela for 14 years until he died on March 5 after a long battle
with cancer at the age of 58. A retired army lieutenant colonel, he
died five months after being re-elected to a third six-year term in
office.
Stone, 66, frequently has praised the outspoken
Chavez, whom he interviewed for a 2009 documentary entitled "South of
the Border," exploring Chavez's role in bottom-up change sweeping South
America.
Other leftist leaders interviewed in that film included Bolivia's Evo Morales and Ecuador's Rafael Correa.
Maduro said that Stone soon will visit Venezuela for the premiere of a film project on "the history of American imperialism."
The
director, who has described his views as "progressive", is known for
politically-angled productions that some critics dismiss as tendentious.
On his website, Stone describes some of his films as being "at deep odds with conventional myth."
His movies include "Platoon" -- the first in his Vietnam trilogy -- "JFK," "Natural Born Killers," and "Nixon."
He
also directed "W." -- an unflattering portrait of former US president
George W. Bush -- and the hit movies "Wall Street" and "Scarface."
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