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Rob Reiner doing a movie about LBJ starring Woody Harrelson as LBJ

Jeffrey Donovan will portray President John F. Kennedy opposite Woody Harrelson’s Lyndon Baines Johnson in Rob Reiner’s movie “LBJ.”

The cast includes Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lady Bird Johnson, Michael Stahl-David as Bobby Kennedy, Richard Jenkins as Richard Russell, Bill Pullman as Ralph Yarborough and Kim Allen as Jackie Kennedy.

Filming is slated to begin in late September in New Orleans, Dallas and Washington, D.C.

Read entire article at Variety