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[angus]

The other one is an "untitled Keith Moon Project"

Myers as Moon? No way. Sam Rockwell please.

It's just so wrong. It'll be miraculous if this movie is any good at all.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mike-Myers-plays-Keith-Moon-9691.shtml

The Cat in the Hat star has finally signed on to play drummer Keith Moon in a biopic based on "The Who" band-member. The untitled film about the rocker best known as the finest 'drum kit' destroyer in history has been in the works for about ten years.

"(Myers) was so busy co-writing and playing four characters in (Austin Powers) that the project never quite came together. He is eager to make it happen now," a source was quoted as saying.

"The Who" frontman Roger Daltrey will produce along with Nigel Sinclair of Spitfire Pictures, who have been working on the ambitious project on and off for a decade.

Austin Powers star Mike Myers is ready to play one of his heroes, the late Keith Moon, who was as wild offstage as on, earning himself a reputation for trashing hotel rooms, cars, and friends' homes, heaving televisions out of hotel windows and letting off fire extinguishers, blowing up toilets, often throwing furniture out of high windows and destroying the plumbing with firecrackers.
The rock star got injured in an explosion he set during an appearance on American TV - causing guitarist Pete Townshend's hair to catch fire.

Moon died in 1978 at the age of 32 after overdosing on an anti-seizure medication, Heminevrin, taken as part of a program to wean him off alcohol. 

"...has been in the works for about ten years ...". You gotta let it go, Mike. Myers is now 10 years older than Moon was at the time of his death. I can see him being believable as Moon in his sad, sad final years. But who wants to see a movie about that? Tell you what, Mike ... get somebody else to play 1960s Keith. You can be washed-up late 1970s Keith.

And Daltrey is producing this thing? Ugh. Maybe Townshend can intervene.

Mike Myers was hilarious as an incomprehensible Ron Wood. But that was just a 3-minute SNL cheap shot. This movie's gonna be a train wreck.

Wait until you see Richard Gere as Kurt Cobain in the film "Nevermind".

WAIT!  Whaaaaaauuuuuuut?

[angus]

I think that Drew Barrymore basically plateaued with ET.

Obviously you've never seen Never Been Kissed.

Excellent movie!  I liked Drew in Home Fries as well.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

Joe Pesci

except i can't figure out where it went wrong: Home Alone?  Gone Fishin'?  Home Alone 2? 

[Wes]

Joe Pesci

except i can't figure out where it went wrong: Home Alone?  Gone Fishin'?  Home Alone 2? 

Some would say 8 Heads In A Duffel Bag. Some would say Gone Fishin'. But the point of no return for Pesci came a year later.



That was 1998. Note that he has no acting credits for a full eight years after this came out. It was doubly sad because it was an attempt to cash in on two past glories: his role in My Cousin Vinny, and his past career in music, which you may remember from his time in Joey Dee & The Starliters and I may remember from the rap over the end credits of The Super.

[Emily]

Joe Pesci

except i can't figure out where it went wrong: Home Alone?  Gone Fishin'?  Home Alone 2? 

Some would say 8 Heads In A Duffel Bag. Some would say Gone Fishin'. But the point of no return for Pesci came a year later.



That was 1998. Note that he has no acting credits for a full eight years after this came out. It was doubly sad because it was an attempt to cash in on two past glories: his role in My Cousin Vinny, and his past career in music, which you may remember from his time in Joey Dee & The Starliters and I may remember from the rap over the end credits of The Super.

Is that the same suit he wore in My Cousin Vinnie?

[Emily]

Oh wait, it's a sequel? I should learn to read before I reply.

[angus]

oh man, I loved my cousin vinny