Rumors: Huston and Ferrell Set for ROCK OF AGES Film

[NakedMaid]

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.

[Yankeefan007]

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

Good choices.

[CSonBroadway]

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

YES.

[ucjrdude902]

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?

[Jordan Catalano]

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

Please please please just keep Jack Black away from this.

[Parks]

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

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

[timote316]

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

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

Whitney HOUSTON.

[JP2]

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

[Mister Matt]

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.

[JP2]

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. . .

[TheatreFan4]

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

Please please please just keep Jack Black away from this.

Don't count on it...

[Jordan Catalano]

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.

[Stage Door Sally]

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.

[Jane2]

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.

[snarkywannabedreamer]

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.

[millie_dillmount]

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.

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

[JP2]

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?

[Stage Door Sally]

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...

[JP2]

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

But Hertz isn't a funny character. . .

[snarkywannabedreamer]

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.

[JP2]

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.

[Stage Door Sally]

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

Yeah, whatever

[Jane2]

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.

[Jane2]

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.

[Stage Door Sally]

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.