Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

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Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 10:22am

Rumors are circulating the Brooks that Whitney Huston has been tapped to play Justice and Will Ferrell for Dennis the Bar Owner.

Nothing is confirmed.

#2

re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 10:29am

Good choices.

#3

re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 10:32am

YES.

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#4

re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 11:29am

The only thing I know about Rock of Ages is what the music is about. Is this a good part for Houston?

#5

re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 11:43am

Please please please just keep Jack Black away from this.

#6

re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 12:04pm

Is there a date they're looking at to release this movie yet?

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re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 12:24pm

My first thought was "what role could Angelica Huston possibly play? And she can sing?".

Whitney HOUSTON.

#8

re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 12:24pm

Hm.. rumors. If true I'm not upset. Houston would be kinda awesome. Just glad it isn't Queen Latifah.

Updated On: 11/6/09 at 12:24 PM

#9

re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 3:26pm

Will Ferrell? Count me out. It'll just be a two-hour repeat of the cowbell sketch, which was almost funny for about 60 seconds. But he certainly has mastered the art of the vacant expression.

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#10

re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 3:30pm

As long as he plays it as Dennis, and not Will Ferrel as Dennis, then it shouldn't be too bad. But yeah, not a fan. . .

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re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 3:32pm

Please please please just keep Jack Black away from this.

Don't count on it...

#12

re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 4:12pm

I know. I mean the part is basically written as that unfunny moron, but I would really like to see this movie and I have a rule where I don't go see Jack Black films.

#13

re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 4:53pm

I was actually hoping for Will Ferrell for Hertz. Dennis is kind of a straight man for the most part, not comic.

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re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 4:55pm

I agree, Ferrell would be perfect for Hertz, but in a way his talent would be wasted on such a small role. I'm confident he can nail the Dennis role too.

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#15

re: Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 5:50pm

Will is too young to play a film version of Hertz. That character is a father of a man in his own right. I think Dennis is a cool idea though. Could be a good Lonny too.

#16

re: Rumors: Houston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 5:53pm

Whitney HOuston.

When I first read the thread title, because the original poster misspelled it, I was thinking Anjelica Huston and thought wtf.

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Updated On: 11/6/09 at 05:53 PM

#17

re: Rumors: Houston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 5:57pm

Um, Ferrell is god-awfully-wrong for Hertz. I'm trying to figure out what would make anybody even remotely think of Ferrell in that role?

#18

re: Rumors: Houston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 7:37pm

Will Ferrell does a great job with funny accents for one thing. And he can play older... George Bush, Robert Goulet, high school music teacher Marty Culp, and even God, to name a few memorable characters...

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re: Rumors: Houston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 7:38pm

But Hertz isn't a funny character. . .

#20

re: Rumors: Houston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 9:26pm

You don't cast movies like a high school play. you cast old men as old men (unless they have to span a lifetime or some other heightened story device). Will is a horrible idea for Hertz. If they were smart they'd get someone cool and menacing like Alan Rickman or Geoffrey Rush.

#21

re: Rumors: Houston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/6/09 at 10:05pm

^Those are excellent choices.

Personally, I'd love for Tim Curry to come out from wherever he's hiding and play Hertz.

#22

re: Rumors: Houston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/7/09 at 9:10am

Yeah, whatever

#23

re: Rumors: Houston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/7/09 at 9:21am

"Um, Ferrell is god-awfully-wrong for Hertz. I'm trying to figure out what would make anybody even remotely think of Ferrell in that role?"

Um, his role as the Nazi in the Producers, for one. It shouldn't be too hard for you to figure out.

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#24

re: Rumors: Houston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/7/09 at 9:26am

"Will is too young to play a film version of Hertz. That character is a father of a man in his own right."

Ferrell's almost 43 in real life, and looks it, and could look older with make up if need be. Hertz in the show doesn't appear older than that anyway. How old do you think Hertz would be?

"But Hertz isn't a funny character. ."

He isn't? I'm trying to figure out how anyone would remotely think that.

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#25

re: Rumors: Houston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

Posted: 11/7/09 at 9:58am

Sorry about my yeah whatever post... I mean to write:

Yeah, whatever, Angela Lansbury was just three years older than Laurence Harvey, who played her son, in The Manchurian Candidate.