Clint Eastwood To Direct Beyonce In Musical Of 'A Star Is Born'

This is a real shocker, and not just Hollywood but the rest of America should love it. What a coup for Warner Bros getting The Man. Of course, Clint Eastwood wiIl produce as well as direct the script by Will Fetters along with producers Billy Gerber and and Basil Iwanyk and Jon Peters (who made the infamous 3rd version of A Star Is Born with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson). No male lead is cast yet, but the possibilities are endless. The project, which has been at WB for several years, had hoped to pair Beyonce and Will Smith. But how about P Diddy (who's turning into a surprisingly fine actor along with Beyonce's husband Jayz), Eddie Murphy (reteaming with Beyonce after Dreamgirls), or any white guy imaginable though Robert Downey Jr and Jon Hamm are names that have been floating? Of course, Clint has had a huge interest in music on screen (remember him as a jazz DJ in Play Misty For Me?), directing Bird, doing all his own scores for his movies and even received an Academy Award nomination for one of them. Then again, I'm one of thise huge fans who thinks Clint can do anything. And Beyonce scored big at the box office in Sony/Screen Gems' Obsession. The idea is to start shooting in the Fall.

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Updated On: 1/20/11 at 07:16 PM

Well, now that Roscoe's stock answer is out of the way, I'm actually quite interested in this. More interested than I was in the Garland and Streisand versions.

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It is just possible that the final result may lie somewhere between "pathetic" and "greatest film of all time."

My statement of derision for the upcoming project was dismissed as being "stock" so I decided to go the other way and see if that would be more appropriate. A hyperbolic knee-jerk reaction, of course.

Reg is, as usual, correct about the possibility of the film falling somewhere in the middle. But with the minimally competent Eastwood at the helm, it will certainly fall nearer the TOTAL CRAP end of the specturm.

Assuming it happens at all, of course. These things have a way of not happening.

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Updated On: 1/21/11 at 12:12 PM

My statement of derision for the upcoming project was dismissed as being "stock" so I decided to go the other way and see if that would be more appropriate.

Derision IS your stock answer for 95% of all films mentioned. You wear it like a badge of honor. It's just sort of...weird. As much as you hate nearly everything, I'm surprised you watch any films at all.

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Dench is playing J. Edgar Hoover's mother in a biopic Clint Eastwood is doing. DiCaprio plays J. Edgar (with Armie Hammer playing his protege/alter ego/lover Clyde Tolson).