Sharon Stone as Hillary Clinton?

If you don’t want to bother with the book, there’s a Hillary Rodham Clinton TV movie in the works.

A&E; plans to make a two-hour movie on the New York senator and former first lady that is expected to air in early 2004. No one has been cast yet, but producers have already talked with Sharon Stone about the title role, according to a source close to the production who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A&E;’s announcement comes just days before Clinton’s book, “Living History,” is scheduled to hit bookstores. The senator will be seen in TV interviews with Barbara Walters, Katie Couric and Larry King in the next few days.

The A&E; movie will be based on a different book, though: Gail Sheehy’s bestseller “Hillary’s Choice.” The telefilm will begin with the start of husband Bill Clinton’s presidency and “will focus on Hillary’s quest to fulfill her own high hopes and ambitions as she repeatedly faces humiliating personal setbacks,” the network said. It ends with her election to the U.S. Senate.