Biopic

Darren Aronofsky in talks to direct Channing Tatum’s Evel Knievel biopic

Posted 11 years ago

Darren Aronofsky has been considering a couple of different projects for his NOAH follow-up, and his next film just might be a biopic about Robert "Evel" Knievel starring Channing Tatum as the famed daredevil. The Tracking Board was the first...

Entourage’s Kevin Connolly to direct John Travolta’s John Gotti biopic

Posted 11 years ago

Deadline has learned that Kevin Connolly has been tapped to direct the long-in-development John Gotti biopic. John Travolta is still set to star as the infamous mobster, and the film is looking to start production in January. Although best known...

Cate Blanchett to star in a Lucille Ball biopic written by Aaron Sorkin

Posted 11 years ago

Not only did Lucille Ball gift the world with some of the greatest comedy of all time, but she was also the head of her own studio which gave us The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible, and Star Trek; in short, she...

Christian Bale will star as Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann’s new film

Posted 11 years ago

Michael Mann's extraordinary film HEAT turns twenty this year, that's crazy. BLACKHAT, the directors most recent film, didn't fare nearly as well as HEAT did as it failed to generate any real commercial or critical interest. Mann isn't letting that...

Here’s the first look at Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in I Saw The Light

Posted 11 years ago

And there you have it: the first look at Tom Hiddleston in the biopic I SAW THE LIGHT. Hiddleston plays the iconic country music singer Hank Williams in the film that also co-stars Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones, David Krumholtz, and...

Eddie Redmayne to play author L. Frank Baum in biopic Road to Oz

Posted 11 years ago

TB is reporting that THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING's Eddie Redmayne has been cast as L. Frank Baum in a biopic about The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author titled ROAD TO OZ. New Line and Flynn Picture Company are producing the...

Ronda Rousey to play Ronda Rousey in biopic based on her autobiography

Posted 11 years ago

Looks like UFC champion Ronda Rousey has found a way to expand her acting resume beyond action films by playing an athlete and UFC fighter in the feature film based on the book My Fight/Your Fight. But, she won't have...

Tom Hanks in talks to play Sully Sullenberger in Clint Eastwood’s new film

Posted 11 years ago

With the monstrous success of AMERICAN SNIPER, director Clint Eastwood's next film will deal with a different sort of hero; Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the man who successfully pulled off the miraculous emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in...

Rob Zombie to helm Groucho Marx biopic Raised Eyebrows

Posted 11 years ago

Deadline is reporting Rob Zombie and Cold Iron Pictures’ Miranda Bailey have acquired the rights to the Steve Stoliar memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House, and THE LORDS OF SALEM director and heavy metaler is attached to helm...

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