Russell Crowe to Play Bill Hicks?

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Russell Crowe to Play Bill Hicks?
Published 8/19/2008 at Vulture
Photos: Getty Images, Wikipedia Crowe at the Improv: In what will surely make Bill Hicks's zombie corpse rise up from hell in black-hearted rage, Russell Crowe has revealed that he has a "project based on the life of [the late] comedian Bill Hicks, ...

Russell Crowe to take on Bill Hicks?
Published 8/19/2008 by john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) at The Movie Blog
With Nottingham filming being delayed, Russell Crowe has some time on his hands. So rather than take up knitting he is looking at picking up a part time job. Rumour has it that he has arranged to play Commedian Bill Hicks as soon as they finish with the script. Coming Soon says: “I have another project based on the life of comedian Bill Hicks, which is going from treatment to draft stage with Kiwi writer Mark Staufer.” It is understood he is considering playing the main role of Hicks — a controversial and brilliant American comedian who battled drug and alcohol abuse before dying ...

LAUGHED MY ASS OFF - and posted on ONTD. Sorry.
Published 8/20/2008 at OH NO!!
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Russell Crowe may next play comedian Bill Hicks now that Ridley Scott's Nottingham has been pushed back. Here's a clip: "I have another project based on the life of comedian Bill Hicks, which is going from treatment to draft stage with Kiwi writer Mark Staufer." It is understood he is considering playing the main role of Hicks — a controversial and brilliant American comedian who battled drug and alcohol abuse before dying from cancer at 32. Crowe confirmed Nottingham would not go ahead until March next year because director Sir Ridley Scott wanted the ...

Film Junk Weekend Wrap-Up: Aug. 24, 2008
Published 8/24/2008 by Sean at Film Junk
[image] There was plenty of fanboy anger out there on the web this week, primarily directed at Fox not only for their lawsuit against Warner Brothers and the Watchmen movie, but also the possible cancellation of the upcoming Dragonball movie and the rumours of interference with Gavin Hood’s vision for X-Men Origins: Wolverine . In other news, Mike Judge has another movie in production, and the Superman franchise will be getting a reboot in the vein of The Punisher and Hulk. Speaking of reboots, both the Poltergeist and Child’s Play series are getting the same treatment, meanwhile the late Chris Farley’s tepid comedy Beverly Hills ...