As always, Friday is a pretty dull day for film news but we weren't left without two interesting tidbits of information.
The most interesting news of the day, in my opinion, was that Oscar winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) is looking to reunite with Sacha Baron Cohen in the long awaited Freddie Mercury biopic. The project has been in development for a few years now, with Cohen (who Hooper directed in Les Miserables) attached since it's inception. Hooper has been offered a number of projects recently, but it seems likely that he's picking this one. I'm happy to see this project finally getting some traction, and Hooper is a solid directorial pick, but I don't particularly have much else to say about it.
There's only one other piece of news so I'm just gonna include it here: with Spielberg apparently dropping his planned Moses film, it appears that Ridley Scott is preparing a movie called Exodus about the Biblical figure, and Ang Lee being looked at to pick up where Spielberg left off on the other project. Not only that, but Christian Bale is being pursued to star in Scott's project. Personally, I don't think we really need one Moses flick, let alone two, but it's nice to see all these great directors taking on the projects. That being said, something tells me we won't be seeing Bale in the project as he will be filming David O. Russell's Abscam film and is also reportedly in talk for O. Russell's next film.
That's it- there won't be any news tomorrow (it's Saturday, and there is rarely ever news...) but I'll be back on Sunday with the box office and a new segment. Have a good weekend!
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