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Reagan may return to Hollywood as a movie character
DIXON - What do time travel, Ronald Reagan and Demi Moore's husband have in common?
They all could become elements of a feature film about Reagan that's being marketed as "historical fiction."
"It's sort of a nostalgic trip through history on the life of Ronald Reagan," Mike Beecher, of Beecher Public Relations, said at a Chamber of Commerce meeting Thursday.
If enough investors sign on, "Lowell Park," based on a book by former Dixonite Mike Chapman, will be shot here starting next summer, Beecher said.
Chapman is a history buff and former executive editor of the Telegraph, now living in Newton, Iowa.
The project has about half of the short-term, $2 million production goal; total cost to make the movie will run about $4 million.
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