(You might not have to keep chugging water all night if you didn’t wear a wool-lined overcoat indoors, genius)
Let’s get one thing clear, I’m reporting this because I admire the balls it takes to print it, not because it’s the least bit true. That said, Jamie Foxx is reportedly a “potential contender” for the lead role in Martin Scorsese’s Sinatra. You know, the biopic about ‘Old Blue Eyes.’
Foxx, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 film Ray, reportedly considered to be “perfect” for the role. If he is chosen for the part, it will be one of the most prominent examples of “colour-blind” casting in Hollywood history.
Also in the running are George Clooney, Leonardo di Caprio, Harry Connick Jnr and Justin Timberlake. [And anyone else whose name is a popular search term! -Ed.]
An unnamed source [Fibby McLiemouth, perhaps?] told the Daily Express: “Cool is colour-blind. Jamie would seem to be born to the role [...in opposite land.]. Magnificent singing voice, totally convincing acting ability, like Frank himself, born the wrong side of the tracks, rags to riches, makes it big against the odds, has his brushes with authority. The guy’s a gift.” [Telegraph]
Another similarity is that Jamie Foxx is often called ‘Old Brown Eye’ (because he’s an asshole, you see). But yeah, they should definitely make Sinatra a black guy. Italians are notoriously good sports about this kind of stuff.
(Separated at birth?)
Question marks in the headline can mean only one thing: it’s time to prognosticate! Will humans land on Mars? Is purple the new pink? Would this monkey let me squeeze her tits for a banana? No one knows for sure, and that means we’re free to speculate wildly! Yee haw!
Considering Leonardo DiCaprio’s been the star of Marty Scorsese’s last four movies and has blue eyes (so dreamy…),the obvious speculation was that he’d be the guy to star in Scorsese’s Sinatra flick. But now Nikki Finke has some news to the contrary. Well, maybe not news, exactly…
I hear Universal’s first choice to fill the role may be Johnny Depp. The studio is thrilled with his performance in this summer’s forthcoming Public Enemies and very much wants to stay in the Johnny Depp business. Besides, it’s already been determined that the lead actor playing Sinatra won’t be singing. The movie will feature Sinatra’s own recordings thanks to a deal with Frank Sinatra Enterprises, guaranteeing the participation of the Sinatra estate and Warner Music Group. Besides, Scorsese and Depp have never worked together: that alone could be reason enough to see this pic. [DHD]
Well good thing they caught Public Enemies, otherwise who knows where they could’ve seen an obscure arthouse thesp like Johnny Depp? That guy’s hardly in anything. Anyway, whatever happens, I wish them luck. My great grandparents have been in the Johnny Depp business since they came over from the old country, and it’s hard honest work.
A fairly-certain-sounding Nikki Finke is reporting exclusively [now confirmed by Variety] that Universal has acquired the rights to a biopic about Frank Sinatra, as well as permission from the Sinatra family, with Martin Scorsese attached to direct.
“This has been a passion project for [producer] Peter Guber for a long time, and first he got together with the Sinatra Estate and then with Scorsese who’s also a huge Sinatra fan,” an insider tells me. Tina [Frank's youngest daughter] herself has told journalists in the past that she would “trust Scorsese implicitly” to “present the truth” about her father because he’s also an Italian-American.
And the best part about it is that it probably torpedoes any shot Brett Ratner had at making the Rat Pack movie he had planned with Chris Tucker (seriously though, that was on the table at one point). Wow, a movie about Sinatra from the guy who did Goodfellas? Can you imagine? I think I just wopgasmed. Can’t stop… gesturing at crotch…
New Line has bought the rights to Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra, a "dishy tell-all" about Old Blue Eyes, with Brett Ratner on as producer/director and Chris Tucker "eyeing the starring role of Sinatra valet George Jacobs."
Any studio exec who still lets Brett Ratner direct movies should have his eyes taped open and be forced to watch Ratner's breakout film, Money Talks, for 20 hours straight. Which is to say that he deserves to die of sadness.
The silver lining of this shit cloud? After hearing today's news, Vegas bookies say the odds on Brett Ratner ending up somewhere in Jersey with a meat hook up his ass have jumped from 10 to 1 to even money.
[source = Variety]
