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Our BetterMost Community => Chez Tremblay => Topic started by: MaineWriter on May 30, 2006, 06:20:13 am
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There was a rumor Heath was going to take a year off to spend with his baby daughter, Matilda. Seems like it was just that...a rumor. We've got Bob Dylan and now this. I have to tell ya, I'm a "Strictly Ballroom" fan (also Baz Luhrmann). This could be good!
Ledger replaces Crowe in Luhrmann movie
By Indo Asian News Service
New York, May 30 (IANS) Oscar winner Russell Crowe has been replaced by Heath Ledger in the untitled Baz Luhrmann movie because he demanded script approval.
According to pagesix.com, the movie, which stars Nicole Kidman in the female lead, is a love story set in Australian outback just before the Japanese bombardment of Darwin in 1942.
The producers asked Luhrmann to get another actor and he chose Ledger after meeting a lot of actors.
A source said: 'Luhrmann liked him and offered him the movie. Then Crowe came back to Luhrmann and said he'd forego script approval and wanted to do the movie, but they told him it was too late - to buzz off.'
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"Our friend Heath is a busy man... "
LOL I saw that thread title and first thought: "What? is Michelle pregnant again?"
He he he! 6 am and my mind is still in the gutter!
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"Our friend Heath is a busy man... "
LOL I saw that thread title and first thought: "What? is Michelle pregnant again?"
He he he! 6 am and my mind is still in the gutter!
Go read the PM I sent you, David ;D
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Thanks Leslie! You really know how to make a mans blood boil so early in the morning! He he he!
I need to go over to the "Jake Jake Jake" thread now. I think the tent needs fixing.
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This makes me happy ! I love Baz Lurhman, this should be a good pairing... almost as good as Jake and David Fincher (can you tell I'm ready for Zodiac to come out??) ;D
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I'm so happy my boy is getting some serious and well-deserved roles. I love him comedy (it's so not his personality) but now he is getting the recognition to which he is entitles-his Ennis del Mar is the stuff of legends. Move over A list, there are 2 new sheriffs in town!
Giving him some serious rubylove
O0
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Thanks Leslie! That is EXCITING news! Can't do much better than Kidman--'less it was Jake.
Can't wait for Zodiac, eithrer..pravtically my home town--in fact (gulp!_ it sorta was...
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Woohoo for Heath!
I am ready to see any movies with Jake and/or Heath in them!
If we can't have another Heath/Jake pairing anytime soon, I'll settle for 1 of the 2 ;).
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Thanks, Leslie, our Intrepid Reporter, for this! IMDb lists the "Untitled Baz Luhrmann Project" for 2008, so Heath could take that year off and still make the movie.
Here's the url for it. For the discussion board (spit/read/spit), go to the bottom of the page:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0455824/
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News report today says that Crowe is still out. Heath discussed the project but passed....maybe he really doesn't want to go back to Australia to make a movie.
I'll keep y'all posted.
Leslie
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"Our friend Heath is a busy man... "
LOL I saw that thread title and first thought: "What? is Michelle pregnant again?"
He he he! 6 am and my mind is still in the gutter!
Same here! A part from the mind-in-the-gutter thing... :P
~ j U d E
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More details...
Heath Ledger has reportedly passed on Baz Luhrmann's offer to star in the $150 million epic tipped to be Australia's answer to Gone with the Wind.
Russell Crowe was in line for the role opposite Nicole Kidman, but Hollywood producers told Luhrmann to look elsewhere for the Rhett Butler of the Outback after Crowe's continual requests for script changes wore thin, The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday.
It is believed Ledger passed on the film in favour of a higher profile role due to be announced soon, the newspaper said.
The film is set to go into pre-production in October with shooting due to begin in February.
Meanwhile, Luhrmann is scouring the US for a new male lead.
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More details...
Heath Ledger has reportedly passed on Baz Luhrmann's offer to star in the $150 million epic tipped to be Australia's answer to Gone with the Wind.
Russell Crowe was in line for the role opposite Nicole Kidman, but Hollywood producers told Luhrmann to look elsewhere for the Rhett Butler of the Outback after Crowe's continual requests for script changes wore thin, The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday.
It is believed Ledger passed on the film in favour of a higher profile role due to be announced soon, the newspaper said.
The film is set to go into pre-production in October with shooting due to begin in February.
Meanwhile, Luhrmann is scouring the US for a new male lead.
Hmmm....thanks Leslie....lookin forward to seein Heath in more roles...he's really taken off since BBM hasn't he....offer after offer after offer!
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It is believed Ledger passed on the film in favour of a higher profile role due to be announced soon, the newspaper said.
Yep he officially turned it down....
http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/id/3503581 (http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/id/3503581)
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If the filming was planned to take place in OZ, I wonder if that was a factor. Heathbaby is still pretty raw about his homeland.
O0
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Here's another rumor about a possible role for Heath:
Rachel Weisz, who has just – congrats! – given birth to a baby boy with fiancée Darren Aronofsky, is considering signing on to Phillip Noyce’s next planned film, Dirt Music.
Heath Ledger is also considering the Australia-based tale, which adapts Tim Winton’s novel about a loveless couple trying (and failing) to make the best of life in a remote fishing village.
But don’t expect a big announcement just yet. Noyce still has to lure funding for the film and he’ll be limited by his actors’ schedules – Weisz will be dealing with a new baby and shooting Wong Kar Wai’s My Blueberry Nights, while Ledger has signed up for a part in unconventional Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There.
Still, having the Oscar-scooping Weisz on board would help crack open a few wallets…