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by Brendan Bettinger Posted:June 20th, 2011 at 7:11 pm
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A decade has passed since Warren Beatty’s last appeared on screen in Town & Country. Last week at the Hero Complex Film Festival, Beatty brought up the possibility of a Dick Tracy sequel — but the skeptics outnumber the faithful 20 to 1 on that claim. The Dick Tracy comment at least demonstrated Beatty’s disinterest in retirement. Moreover, Beatty has reportedly been shopping around an original screenplay for the past couple weeks. Tonight Paramount announced a deal with Beatty to produced, direct, and star in the untitled project. Paramount declined to reveal story details — Variety hints it may be the Howard Hughes movie that Beatty has “long wanted to do,” yet Deadline refers to the project as a comedy. (Not sure what to make of that. If Dick Tracy fought Howard Hughes, that would be funny, right?)
Casting is currently underway; production is scheduled for later this year. As someone who always wondered why follow the last stage of the Clint Eastwood career arc, I’d like to say, “Welcome back, Mr. Beatty. Godspeed.”
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Better idea than a Howard Hughes vs. Dick Tracy movie, even though that is a freaking awesome idea, Brendan, is casting Mr. Beatty as Hughes in that supposed Howard Hughes biopic Chris Nolan is doing after Batman. Beatty would be perfect.
Beatty is older now (74) than Hughes when he died (70). So Nolan would be limited to just-before-death Hughes. I’m hoping for at least a decade of crazy.
Now that you mention the whole batshit crazy part, maybe thats how a comedy Howard Hughes film could work? Hughes going well and truly bonkers with a strong comedic actor (for some damn reason I keep picturing either Beatty, Woody Allen, or Paul Giamatti), thats prime comedic matierial.
It’s about time Beatty gets back to work. The movie industry could use more classy Hollywood films and he delivers. And yes, I liked Love Affair. Thought he and Annette were glowing in that film.