Bush’s Katrina downfall revisited
New season of American Crime Story will include ‘crimes against people’ such as hurricane aftermath
The actor from such movies as Wyatt Earp and A Dog’s Purpose will portray former president George Bush in Katrina: American Crime Story, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Quaid has previously portrayed President Bill Clinton in The Special Relationship.
FX’s crime anthology series enjoyed a massively successful first season that chronicled the racially charged trail of OJ Simpson. It was nominated for 22 Emmys, making it the most-nominated show of 2015, and won nine — including “Outstanding Limited Series.”
“The Ferguson stuff was going down and the Black Lives Matter movement had begun” when they were preparing for that season, executive producer Ryan Murphy told Entertainment Weekly.
“We were shooting stuff that had already been written months before, and we were like, ‘Wow, the more things change, the more things stay the same.’ It was heartbreaking. I think all of us felt an obligation to get that stuff right.”
For the show’s second season, Murphy decided to widen its scope from the trial of a single man to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which caused widespread destruction along the Gulf Coast.
“I want this show to be a socially conscious, socially aware examination of different types of crime around the world,” Murphy told the Hollywood Reporter of the new series. He said he considers Katrina “a crime against a lot of people who didn’t have a strong voice, and we’re going to treat it as a crime. That’s what this show is all about.”
Bush was heavily criticised for the federal government’s federal