Because we are living in an age where everything happening around us is far more ridiculous than any parody could ever be, we are not at all surprised to learn that Oliver Stone - in the midst of making a new documentary about Vladimir Putin - sat the Russian President down for his first-ever screening of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb.

People, that is a Weekend Update joke made real.

This tidbit of information comes to us from IndieWire, who have a new post up today about Stone's The Putin Interviews, along with the first trailer. Let's take a look at that before we go on.

So...that definitely looks like it's gonna be something, doesn't it? The doc was apparently assembled across several years, with Stone traveling back and forth to Russia to interview Putin on what IndieWire says was over a dozen occasions. It's not Stone's first on-camera dance with a shady world figure, either (in the past, the director has sat down with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro), so we're thinking odds are good that he ended up with something interesting.

For what it's worth, Stone tells the Sydney Morning Herald that "documentary" may be a bit of a misnomer in this case:

“It’s not a documentary as much as a question and answer session. It opens up a whole viewpoint that we as Americans haven’t heard… He talks pretty straight. I think we did him the justice of putting (his comments) into a Western narrative that could explain their viewpoint in the hopes that it will prevent continued misunderstanding and a dangerous situation – on the brink of war.”

What do you guys think? Looking forward to The Putin Interviews? Tired of seeing Vladimir Putin's mug on your television? Think Putin helped Trump steal the election or not so much? Sound off in the comments below, we're curious where you folks stand on all this.

The Putin Interviews arrives on Showtime on June 12th. You'll be able to watch it because you're already planning on signing up for Showtime this summer for the Twin Peaks revival.