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[rm]

Although I know like five of you can hear my inner commentary on this:

Page Six is reporting that Russell Crowe has been replaced with Heath Ledger in Luhrmann's as yet untitled Australian epic.

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[rahalia-cat.livejournal.com]

AUGH!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Page Six is a bit sketchy, but Ledger is Australian, can act in the hands of the right director, is hot right now and can probably, for want of a better way of putting this, deal with the likely eccentricities of that set.

Of course, people just like spreading crap about RC, so it might just be that, but if he is out, the replacement makes sense.

[rahalia-cat.livejournal.com]

It does, yeah. I'm also wondering about the role itself; whether it's supposed to be for a younger guy, and whether RC is actually too old for it...

[rm.livejournal.com]

Go to spec spec and read the Page Six thing. The age thing gets raised in the discussion that follows it, and I think is valid, but the news piece itself strikes me as very plausible. Read it and email me.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Hrrm; well, if it gets the bloody thing made, then that may be all to the good, the inevitable "Brokeback Outback" jokes aside. Ledger was good in The Brothers Grimm; this could possibly work.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I think it could work too, but yes the jokes are inevitable, both between Ledger last film and the Luhrmann sensibility. Of course, this makes me giggle, but I can also see it getting really old, really fast.