Jake Gyllenhaal to play Leonard Bernstein?
mainHollywood chatter has it that the Brokeback Mountain star will play Leonard Bernstein in a forthcoming biopic, The American.
The director is Cary Joji Fukunaga and money is being raised at Cannes for shooting later this year.
The script has been adapted from Humphrey Burton’s biography.
He did not get that part at this audition.
Why bother!? What is the point? Utter nonsense.
lol
Lenny famously had a poor singing voice. He often admitted it
Sean Penn looks more like Lenny
They should base the movie on the Joan Peyser biography. Much more fun.
Brilliant idea. Love your work, Jake.
Woody Allen to play Mahler ?
On the stereo; sure. But I think he’s more interested in playing Gershwin. And the clarinette.
Robert Alda (Alan’s father) played Gershwin most succesfully back in 1945 in “Rhapsody in Blue”. Oscar Levant and Paul Whiteman co-starred as themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAuTouBhN5k
I’ve seen that film. As a biopic it isn’t too bad.
Lenny’s life and work is way more interesting than any possible movie about it. I don’t see how he can be condensed to 2 or so hours. But I am opened to being convinced. Frankly, I am feeling a bit Lennyed-out at this point of 2018, and it’s only May.
Why would he “be condensed”? A movie has no obligation to cover all aspects of a person’s life. It will probably focus on one or two parts of his life and if it does it well, then it can be called an artistic success.
Then it wouldn’t be a “bio-pic.”