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Girl You Know It’s True: A Milli Vanilli movie?
I read the news today (oh boy) on AICN that Universal wants to make a movie about Milli Vanilli, those infamous, notorious fakers who sold lots of records and won a Best New Artist Grammy, even though they didn’t sing a note on their songs. It is to be written and directed by Jeff Nathanson, who penned two excellent scripts for Steven Spielberg: “Catch Me If You Can” and the sorely underrated “The Terminal.”
My first reaction was to groan and roll my eyes. I think that’s a reflex with anything involving Milli Vanilli. Call it dreck by association.
But then I got to thinking - maybe it’s not such a bad idea. The story of Milli Vanilli is certainly a dramatic one, and if Nathanson handles it right, it could make for quite a good movie.
Still, two questions remain:
Does this movie really need to happen when the story has already been told quite well in one of the best episodes of VH1’s “Behind the Music?” (This was back when VH1 was actually worth watching.)
And more importantly, if they do make this movie, will you go see it? For that matter, who should play Rob and Fab? Any suggestions?
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By SRCputt
February 15, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this
Whoever gets cast as the duo MUST have their voices dubbed.