The British network More4 is preparing to broadcast a 'shockingly real' drama that will focus on the fictional assassination of President George W. Bush. The film, to be aired on the channel on October 9th, will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September.

The film, shot in documentary style, makes good use of real footage (which is later manipulated) and special effects to show the death of Bush, set to take place in October 2007, in Chicago. Bush is gunned down by a sniper and the investigation will eventually lead to a Syrian-born suspect, but it will also involve high ranking officials from the Secret Service.

When the White House found out that Bush is to die in Britain, from the hands of the daring director Gabriel Range, no response was given to 'Death of a President'. But the CEO of More4 says that the film is not meant to put ideas into people's heads or to suggest that the world would be better without the 'most powerful man on the planet', as he has been repeatedly called.

'It's an extraordinarily gripping and powerful piece of work, a drama constructed like a documentary that looks back at the assassination of George Bush as the starting point for a very gripping detective story. It's a pointed political examination of what the war on terror did to the American body politic', he said. He then added that 'Death of a President' aims, in fact, at making people be more open to discussion and debate.

'It's not sensationalist or simplistic but a very thought-provoking, powerful drama. I hope people will see that the intention behind it is good'. The director of 'Death', Range, is the same man who, in 2003, showed what would happen to Britain if the famous underground network would stop working, in 'The Day Britain Stopped'.