According to Access Hollywood, Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore are set to join the cast of an upcoming film about former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which HBO and Executive Producer Kathleen Kennedy are in discussions to make.
Quaid will star as former President Bill Clinton, and Moore will portray his wife, Hillary Clinton in The Special Relationship, the closing film of a political trilogy written by Peter Morgan and concerning former Prime Minister Blair.
The film series began in 2003 with UK TV movie, The Deal – about Tony Blair's rise to power in the British Labour party – and was followed up in 2006 with The Queen which focused on the reaction of the British Royal Family to the death of Princess Diana.
Michael Sheen, who recently starred in Frost/Nixon, and previously played Blair in The Queen, will reprise the Prime Minister role. Helen McCrory, who was also in The Queen as Cherie Blair, Tony's wife, is also in the cast.
The Special Relationship – which will be Peter Morgan's directorial debut – will be set during the time when President Clinton engaged in an affair with one-time intern, Monica Lewinsky, and will specifically center on Bill Clinton's sometimes-tumultuous political relationship with Blair when the British Prime Minister first took office.
A source close to Julianne Moore said this will be a big role for both Quaid and her. “Playing Hillary, a wife who stands by her unfaithful husband, will be something she can get her teeth stuck into." Both actors previously co-starred as husband and wife in 2002's Far From Heaven, a drama set in the 1950s.
