Kevin Bacon contines his legacy of film domination by joining Ron Howard in the Upcoming film FrostNixon. We get the news and synopsis from the hallowed halls of The Hollywood Reporter:
Kevin Bacon has joined the cast of “Frost/Nixon,” Working Title Films and Universal Pictures’ adaptation of the hit Peter Morgan play. Ron Howard is directing, while Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer.The play is based on a series of televised interviews that David Frost secured with former President Nixon in 1977. The final interview ended with Nixon tacitly admitting his guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal. Bacon, who is set to play Nixon’s chief of staff Jack Brennan, joins Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones and Matthew Macfadyen.
Kevin Bacon is a man that likes to spit on you during sex. He is also a fantastic actor with an incredible body of work and a magnificent ability to play a wide range of charachters. He was fantastic in Sleepers where he played the dirtbag pedophile that gets swift justice delivered unto him in a diner.
The story of Nixon is one I know little about. From what I understand he is the second worst president the USA has had in the past 100 years. To make a movie about the infamous David Frost interview is just a great idea. Adaptions from the stage do not always work, but with this subject matter I think a quality adaptation will be no problem at all. Ron Howard + Kevin Bacon is the mathematics of success.
