Russell Crowe to Play Comedian Bill Hicks?
I don’t even know who Bill Hicks is (feel free to tell me in the comments section!), but the idea of Russell Crowe playing a comedian…?
Hey, I guess if Heath Ledger can play The Joker, Russell Crowe can play a comedian, right? Truthfully, I’m sure he can play any role given to him, he’s such a talented actor.
Now that Ridley Scott’s Nottingham has been pushed back (due to leaf issues, scheduled to move forward in March 2009), Crowe may indeed fill in his time playing comedian Bill Hicks, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
He 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.”
According to the story, Hicks is “a controversial and brilliant American comedian who battled drug and alcohol abuse before dying from cancer at 32.”
Image: Russell Crowe, American Gangster, Universal Pictures, 2007
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1 opinion for Russell Crowe to Play Comedian Bill Hicks?
Anon
Nov 9, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Russel Crowe couldn’t portray Bill Hicks’ anus.
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