Skip Gates: The Movie!

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Dr. Gates’ arrest has box office gold written all over it. But who would play the essential cast of characters in this mid-summer tour de force?

The Daily Beast has been casting 2009: The Movie and in casting Skip Gates: The movie, they’ve come up with a rogue’s gallery of Hollywood luminaries

Jeffrey Wright – Dr. Gates

Tim Blake Nelson – Sgt. Crowley

Michael Clarke Duncan – Sgt. Lashley

Richard Roundtree – Charles Ogletree

Donal Logue – Robert Gibbs

Will Smith – Barack Obama

Megan Mullally – 911 Caller Wendy Murphy

The Buzz would love to throw some snarky shade here, but the list is pretty good. What do you think of the casting?

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