Oliver Stone Makes Movies About Underdogs

Oliver Stone has revealed that he likes making movies about underdogs.

Stone has been behind great movies such as Platoon, Natural Born Killers and Born on the Fourth of July as well as biopic such as W. and Nixon.

Speaking to AV Club the filmmaker said: "I also do films about a lot of underdogs, I hope you realise.

"I'm not only interested in power, per se. I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power. The tortured power of Richard Nixon and Alexander [the Great] fascinate me.

"I can't say the tortured power of George Bush, because [W.] is exactly the opposite. He's not self-tortured, so I guess my thesis doesn't hold up on that one.

"W. interested me because he so affected our time, the 2000s, and I just felt we had to have some kind of dramatic interpretation of what happened.

"It was so shocking that this fella could become president."

We last saw Stone in the director's chair with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - a sequel to the eighties classic.

He is set to direct Savages.