HBO set to capitalize on Obama Mania

Will Smith will play Obama in the movie but for now Obama will play himself. HBO announced that it has acquired the U.S. television rights to an as-yet-unnamed documentary on President-elect Barack Obama that was created and produced by Edward Norton’s Class 5 Films production company. HBO officials said the documentary will premiere sometime in 2009.

The documentary, which is produced by Stuart Blumberg and Bill Migliore and directed by Amy Rice and Alicia Sams, documents Obama’s historic rise to become the first African American president of the United States and examines American politics and culture through the prism of his candidacy.