Oliver Stone has announced that he is working on a documentary about controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - which should surprise precisely no one, since controversial Presidents are to Oliver Stone what big explosions are to Michael Bay.
Stone has already spent six months with Chavez, and was even with him during the dramatic rescue of the FARC hostages from Columbia in February (that's not the focus of this film, but there are two already being planned on that topic). Instead, Stone plans to focus on Chavez' "South American revolution" of leftist leaders who oppose US foreign policy in the region, object to privatisation of national industries and generally make things difficult for poor ol' Dubya.
Chavez, who led a failed military coup in 1992 before becoming President in 1999, has led programmes to tackle disease, poverty and illiteracy in his country, but has also been the subject of electoral controversies, another attempted coup and mass protests, so there's lots of dramatic meat there.
Stone also announced that he's working on another documentary, the subject of which is still under wraps, but he denied rumours that that one's about Iran's super-controversial President Ahmadinejad. Still, how many more controversial Presidents are there? Nixon, Castro, Bush, now Chavez - at the very least, Putin should be expecting a call from Stone any minute now.