Doug Liman wants Russell Crowe/Nicole Kidman team-...
Doug Liman wants Russell Crowe/Nicole Kidman team-up
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It very nearly happened on Australia for director Baz Luhrmann but Crowe eventually walked out saying “I don’t do charity work” when his usual $20 million+ was not forthcoming.
Luhrmann soon went out and hired Hugh Jackman for the film (due out at the end of the year) and the Crowe/Kidman partnership never saw fruition.Now word has come from MTV that director Doug Liman (Jumper, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) wants to cast Russell Crowe in his upcoming dramatic biopic of Valerie Plame which currently has Kidman down for the lead role.
Plame was a former a CIA officer who worked for the government for twenty years but had to retire in December 2005 when her identity was outed by an American journalist two and a half years prior.
Liman says he would love to hire Crowe to play the part of New York Times reporter Joe Wilson, the man who wrote the infamous piece “What I didn’t find in Africa”, a scatching attack on the Bush administration…
“I’d love Russell Crowe,” director Doug Liman enthused. “If you’ve met Joe, he’s a really strong guy. I’ve never met an actor stronger than Russell Crowe.”
“It’s the Valerie Plame story but you wouldn’t know it when Joe’s around,” Liman insisted. “I met with [Russell] for ‘Bourne Identity’ and I was terrified. The whole time I was in the room with him I was just scared of him. This is a scary dude! And Joe is kind of like that.”
I would love to see it happen but just remember Doug, offer him the right money because he don’t come cheap!
Luhrmann soon went out and hired Hugh Jackman for the film (due out at the end of the year) and the Crowe/Kidman partnership never saw fruition.Now word has come from MTV that director Doug Liman (Jumper, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) wants to cast Russell Crowe in his upcoming dramatic biopic of Valerie Plame which currently has Kidman down for the lead role.
Plame was a former a CIA officer who worked for the government for twenty years but had to retire in December 2005 when her identity was outed by an American journalist two and a half years prior.
Liman says he would love to hire Crowe to play the part of New York Times reporter Joe Wilson, the man who wrote the infamous piece “What I didn’t find in Africa”, a scatching attack on the Bush administration…
“I’d love Russell Crowe,” director Doug Liman enthused. “If you’ve met Joe, he’s a really strong guy. I’ve never met an actor stronger than Russell Crowe.”
“It’s the Valerie Plame story but you wouldn’t know it when Joe’s around,” Liman insisted. “I met with [Russell] for ‘Bourne Identity’ and I was terrified. The whole time I was in the room with him I was just scared of him. This is a scary dude! And Joe is kind of like that.”
I would love to see it happen but just remember Doug, offer him the right money because he don’t come cheap!
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