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"HBO Films has acquired the movie rights to an unreleased book about the 2008 US Presidential election. The network has hired Blood Diamond screenwriter Charles Leavitt to adapt the upcoming Harper Collins book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, according to Variety. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime is a behind-the-scenes look at the political players and their camps. The writers said that they decided to concentrate on the larger-than-life aspects the candidates brought to the race for the White House.  &amp;quot;Focusing on those characters went to the essence of why this was the campaign of a lifetime, not just for the candidates, but for the country,&amp;quot; Halperin said. The book will be released next year and its authors will act as consultants on the movie. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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