Ahhhh high school. The days when if you did something stupid you could just “blame it on the rain” and if a girl questioned your honest love for her you could just take her hand, look her right in the eye and profess “girl you know it’s true”. Well… you wouldn’t actually say it… you’d just move your lips to those words while someone not as good looking as you said it from behind you. Ah yes, it was the era of Milli Vanilli!
It’s been known for some time now that a movie about Milli Vanilli has been in the works… which I’ll tell you right up front I think is a very rich idea for a movie. Forget the silliness of it. The real drama of the story, how the record company pulled off a huge public scam, and how the biggest pop stars in the world went from the thrown to the gutter almost over night. That’s good stuff for a movie.
Anyway, a weird (yet oddly believable) rumor has surfaced (I stress the word rumor) that Brett Ratner (who I don’t think is very good, but isn’t nearly as bad as some people make him out to be) may be up for directing the project. The folks over at Slashfilm give us this:
…director Brett Ratner is in talks to direct a movie based on the Milli Vanilli story for Universal. Rush Hour screenwriter Jeff Nathanson has written the screenplay about “one producer and two lip-syncing male models who sold millions of records and won a Grammy before their scam was revealed.” Kathleen Kennedy is attached as executive producer.
Well, true or not, this could be an interesting project depending on how they decide to approach it. I wonder if a “best of” Milli Vanilli album will come out to support the movie’s release.
