Iran's president has rejected an offer from Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone to make a movie about him.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reasoning apparently has to do with the fact that Stone is from the U.S. "I sent a negative answer by Ahmadinejad to Oliver Stone," the Fars agency quoted presidential media advisor Mehdi Kalhor as saying. "It is right that this person is considered part of the opposition in the U.S. but opposition in the U.S. is a part of the Great Satan."
Stone seemed to take the unofficial rejection in stride. "I have been called a lot of things but never a great satan," the man behind the films Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July said in a statement. "I wish the Iranian people well and only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours."
Stone apparently sent the proposal a year ago but the country has since decided against allowing the film to be made. The director is known for his political films, which also include JFK, Nixon, and a documentary about Cuban President Fidel Castro.
He's critical of the current Bush administration and said last year he was "ashamed" of the country's war in Iraq.
Image Credit: Oliver Stone at the 2006 National Board of Review Awards, Evan Agostini, Getty Images for The National Board of Review