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Golden God Joins Mann’s New Film
Billy Crudup, most notably known as Stillwater guitarist Russell Hammond in Cameron Crowe’s* Almost Famous, has joined Michael Mann’s new John Dillinger gangster pic, Public Enemies. According to Variety, Crudup will be playing a younger version of cross-dressing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in the film currently filming in the Chicago suburbs. Crudup (alongside Mann-favorite Stephen Lang) joins the already-star studded film featuring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Giovanni Ribisi, Stop-Loss star Channing Tatum and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard.
Crudup, who recently finished production on The Watchmen (as Dr. Manhattan) should be a great addition to what is shaping up to be a huge movie for 2009. He’s already played a government official (in the under-rated M:I-3) and could possibly shed some light on the mysterious Hoover. Rest assured, with Crudup on board, Public Enemies should fly like airplanes of mobster movies.
Crudup and Cotillard co-starred together in 2003’s Big Fish. Public Enemies is due in theaters next year.
* I originally wrote “Russell Crowe’s Almost Famous” accidentally and gave myself a little chuckle. I was tempted to keep it in just to raise questions in the talkback . . . then realized my co-hosts and girlfriend are usually the only people who comment on my articles.
–Josh Radde
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You mean to tell me that Russell Crowe didn’t direct Almost Famous?
Hold up….
No Melanie. But he did do “Jerry Maguire,” right?
I’m pretty sure the only thing he’s done is “Russell Crowe’s Fightin ‘Round the World.”