Will Ferrell to Provide Even More Presidential Laughs by Playing Ronald Reagan

Hilarity ensured.

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Will Ferrell, an inarguable master of eviscerating notable Republicans on live TV, is going to provide the perfect follow-up to his years spent doing an eerily accurate impersonation of former president George W. Bush. Ferrell has been tapped to star as Ronald Reagan in the Black List favorite Reagan, according toVariety. As if that ingenious casting decision wasn't enough to entirely sell the entire population of America on catching this eventual movie in theaters, the actual story sounds blissfully hilarious.

Reagan, written by Mike Rosalio, follows the Republican president during his second term as he slips into dementia. An intern is faced with the daunting duty of convincing Reagan that he is but an actor playing the president in a movie, a scenario which sounds just meta enough to actually work. Ferrell will also produce the film, which currently lacks a director, under his Gary Sanchez banner.

Ferrell's take on Bush is widely regarded as one of the more classic Saturday Night Live creations, an exaggerated take on the 43rd President of the United States that ultimately resulted in the 2009 Broadway production You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush:

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This exaggerated Bush would later be revived in 2015, with Ferrell bringing him back to SNL for some proper GOP evisceration. "Running a government is kind of like driving a school bus," Ferrell's Bush told the nation in December. "You don't want a crazy person driving that bus. You want a simple, underachieving, not-very-educated-but-reliable guy behind the wheel." Nailed it.

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What will Ferrell do for the (controversial) legacy of Reagan? Gary Sanchez Productions will soon start shopping the project to various studios, so hopefully we'll have some semblance of an answer to that question in the months ahead.

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