Ed Hamell was talking about this at his gig the other night.
John Cusack with a few pounds on might be a better look but he's already way too old.
Should be interesting to see how it develops anyway.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2008/aug/19/1
John Cusack with a few pounds on might be a better look but he's already way too old.
Should be interesting to see how it develops anyway.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2008/aug/19/1
In brief: Russell Crowe may play Bill Hicks
Plus: cast announced for new Coen brothers film, and Ricky Gervais plans an Office-style film about building society workers
- Ben Child
- guardian.co.uk,
- Tuesday August 19 2008 11:12 BST
Born to play the part ... Russell Crowe and Bill Hicks. Photograph: Evan Agostini / Getty and Everett Collection / Rex Features
Russell Crowe is considering starring as Bill Hicks in a biopic of the late, great US comic, according to Empire online. Crowe was due to star as a good Sheriff of Nottingham in Ridley Scott's Nottingham, but that project has been delayed until at least spring by concerns over a possible actors' strike and a likely deficit in the greenness of Sherwood forest's leaves over the period in which the movie was initially due to be filmed. New Zealand writer Mark Staufer is currently working on a draft script for a film about the life of Hicks, a controversial figure in the States who gained a huge cult following in the UK before his death from pancreatic cancer at the age of just 32.
Relatively unknown actors Richard Kind and Michael Stuhlbarg will star in The Coen brothers' next film, A Serious Man, according to Variety. They will play brothers in the 1967-set feature, which is described as a black comedy. The story centres on a Midwestern professor (Stuhlbarg) whose wife leaves him at the same time as his socially inept brother (Kind) is refusing to move out of the house. Kind is best known for his role in the TV show Spin City, opposite Michael J Fox, while Gopnik is a Tony-nominated stage actor. Another Coen black comedy, Burn After Reading, hits UK cinemas on October 17.
Ricky Gervais is to return to the style of his breakthrough TV show, The Office, with the self-penned film The Men at the Pru, according to The Independent. Gervais has written the screenplay with long-term partner Stephen Merchant about two twentysomething building society clerks working in Reading, which is the actor's home town. Gervais wrote on his blog: "Did a bit of scouting for The Men at the Pru. Filming won't start 'til next May or June but locations can really inspire. I've also been reading books about my home town of Reading. That's where the HQ of the Prudential Building Society was in the 70s." There's no word yet on casting for the film, although Gervais will be involved on screen in some form.
