So the big fanbase for Robbie Williams is mainly UK based, but there’s surely enough to warrant some discussion on this story from Digital Spy.
Paramount Pictures have apparently optioned the movie rights to Robbie Williams’ life.
Whilst in rehab in LA the singer found time to write a script chronicling his transition from boyband heart-throb to successful solo artist punctuated by a troubled period of rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle involving alcohol and drug addiction.
Robbie told IOL.com: “I started to write them as therapy while I was in Los Angeles, and a friend suggested I submit them. To my surprise they (Paramount) liked them and have optioned them, which is amazing.
“Would I like to act? No, not at all, but I like the idea of some of my work being up there on the big screen.”
Mmmm…I’m really trying not to be sceptical at this point. It’s that same feeling I started to get with the modern This is your life program (and now no one knows what I’m talking about!). This was a program where stars would be interviewed about their entire life, big stars, old stars, and slowly as it fought in the ratings battle it turned to younger and younger “stars”, people who hadn’t really had much of a life, people in their 20’s!
The similar feeling I get is when some recently released “star” writes (or usually co-writes) their autobiography. Geez, you’re in your 20’s, does that mean you’ll be doing a quadrilogy…or even more? Will I be buying the boxset biography when you’re 80?!
Anyway, he’s much too young for a film about his life. A movie about the rehab aspects perhaps, but not his life!
