Hillary Clinton requested that the film be made

Bedroom

"Someone said I should have brought a Scream mask and have someone jump out in it, but that would have been the last time we would have been invited over."

Miramax Films spokesman Matthew Hiltzik said the company's co-chairman, Harvey Weinstein, was co-producing the film along with Jane Rosenthal of Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions.

He added the idea came after Craven visited the White House last year for a screening of his film Music Of The Heart.

It is reported that the locations included in the film include the Lincoln Bedroom, which has played host to political donors and friends of the former president.

But the Oval Office ante room made notorious by Mr Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky will not be shown.

Mock documentary

Footage from the tour will be edited into an hour-long documentary to be shown at Mr Clinton's presidential library in Arkansas.

Last year Mr Clinton appeared with his wife in a mock documentary shown at a dinner for White House journalists.

It showed him answering the telephones at the White House, giving a mock Oscar acceptance speech, and making packed lunches for his wife, who was campaigning for a seat in the US Senate at the time.

The film co-starred Kevin Spacey and was produced with the help of Martin Sheen and Rob Lowe, who star in hit presidential TV drama The West Wing.