Recently Oliver Stone has been connected with a film about a 2002 coup in Venezuela, the connection comes with comments direct from the President Hugo Chavez. However Stone has openly denied that he's involved with this movie project.

From Reuters comes the denial:

On Sunday, leftist firebrand Chavez told the South American country that Stone was making a film about the short-lived coup that Chavez says was planned by United States...

..."Rumors that I am directing a film about the 2002 coup in Venezuela are untrue and unfounded," Stone said in a statement released by his publicist.

So that's a pretty firm no. There's two sides of this, on one it sounds like a superb Stone project, a story of a coup that might have been planned by the US to overthrow the local Goverment which failed a few days later. On the other side it's propaganda by the local regime to get the story out in the press and the conspiracy theorists going.

Whichever it is, you can now be guaranteed that screenwriters will be researching the story as we speak. Whether it becomes a written work, and whether it ends up a big or small movie, we won't know until some time. Perhaps Stone is attached but doesn't want the controversy while he's working on a very patriotic movie? For now, it's a firm denail.