The film is shot as if it were a conventional television documentary, even though the events are fictional.

Range, who also co-wrote the film, uses footage taken of Bush during three visits to Chicago to create the scenes that lead up top the president being shot.

He also uses special digital effects to superimpose the head of the president on that of an actor pretending to be shot, and he creates a flowery eulogy delivered by President Dick Cheney at the funeral of his predecessor.

The movie opens with demonstrations against Bush as he visits Chicago in 2007. As he leaves a hotel after delivering a speech, he is shot by a sniper in a nearby building.

The distribution rights were purchased for $1 million by Newmarket Films, the same company who distributed Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.” The film is set to have a wide release throughout the US.

Of course there are those who only want to be surrounded by the things they agree with and by only those who share their same beliefs. They couldn’t possibly see the film as fictional entertainment.

The 93-minute film’s subject matter has led to protests in the United States, especially from conservatives. Range said he has received five or six death threats.

I find it interesting that people who are protesting this portrayal of the assassination or death of President Bush are also threatening to kill the film’s producer/director/creator. How perfectly ridiculous and hypocritical is that? “We don’t approve of this whole… killing the President drama… so we’re going to kill you”. Very South Park’esque.

Link to Bush assassination film set for U.S. release - via Yahoo! News