Send your ideas to with your name and hometown and we’ll update this post with our favorites.Īlso, since the first “Game Change” movie revolved around Sarah Palin and the McCain campaign, it’s open season on roles for the 2012 candidates, their families and other choice parts. In that spirit we invite readers to suggest titles that dip more shamelessly into the tepid lukewarm bathwater of political cliché. Still it’s unfortunate that the title is the hackiest of hack political expressions, one that doesn’t seem especially connected to the campaign itself. Scarcely a month out from the slog itself, its hard to summon much enthusiasm for either the book or the movie. Penguin is the publisher and HBO has already optioned the book. Following up on their bestselling, absurdly readable account of the 2008 race, “Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime” Halperin and Heilemann will be unleashing “Double Down: Game Change 2012” on a defenseless public, The Hollywood Reporter reports.

Godoff said that “Double Down” would break news about the campaigns.You can almost here the cries of “Too soon! Too soon!”įollowing up on the campaign that wouldn’t end, political scribblers Mark Halperin (no relation to this writer) and John Heilemann are going to ensure that the 2012 election lives forever in breezy prose. The book is being handled by the power duo of Ann Godoff at Penguin and Andrew Wylie at The Wylie Agency.

Palin as his running mate, won five Emmy awards. Revelations about Senator John McCain’s unexpected decision to pick Ms. The film, which focused exclusively on the book’s John Heilemann and Mark Halperin set the national conversation on fire. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Woody Harrelson as the Republican strategist Steve Schmidt. Read 845 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Their earlier book was the basis of an HBO film starring Julianne Moore as Gov. Heilemann is national affairs editor for New York magazine and political commentator on MSNBC. Halperin is a senior political analyst for both Time magazine and MSNBC and Mr. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list in 2010, featured behind-the-scenes machinations within the Obama and McCain campaigns. “Game Change,” which made its debut at No.

Penguin also said that HBO had optioned the rights to the book, which is set to appear in fall 2013. | Updated Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the political journalists behind the best seller “Game Change,” about the 2008 presidentialĬampaign, will publish a book about the just-concluded election under the title “Double Down: Game Change 2012,” Penguin Press announced on Tuesday. John Heilemann, left, and Mark Halperin attended the premiere of the film version of their book, 'Game Change.' Credit Evan Agostini/Associated Pressĥ:14 p.m.

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