(FORTUNE Magazine) – The news that Sony Pictures Entertainment had bought the film rights to Richard Clarke's explosive bestseller, Against All Enemies, was the most enticing Hollywood gossip we'd heard all year! Suddenly our minds were racing: Will Janet Jackson reprise her Saturday Night Live role as Condi? Can Nick Nolte master those famous Rummy hand gestures? And seriously, did Richard Clarke star in Lost in Translation? Here, FORTUNE's complete casting call. --Kate Bonamici

Janet Jackson as Condoleezza Rice

Vincent Pastore as George Tenet

Nick Nolte as Donald Rumsfeld

Patrick Swayze as Karen Hughes

James Earl Jones as Colin Powell

Bill Murray as Richard Clarke

Timothy Bottoms as George W. Bush