Mickey Rourke to play "Hells Angel" Sonny Barger

[WyldeMan45]

I've read Sonny’s book a few times, he is a very interesting guy and the reason the Angels became so big. I understand that Mickey used to ride with the Angels but they look nothing alike and if Sonny don't like your project he's gonna kill it. Anybody remember the HBO show 1% with W. Earl Brown that Sonny got killed because they basically stole his life story? Sonny is really good friends with Kurt Sutter and the cast of Sons of Anarchy and that show employs actual Angels in some of it's leads. I'll be curious as to how much they actually use of Sonny's story, but the fact that they are already talking about the undercover cop angle, how is this any different from every biker movie we've ever seen? This makes me think of Beyond the Law with Charlie Sheen. Shia as an undercover biker cop? The kid can't even grow facial hair yet, and Sonny's story takes place in the 50's - 70's and everybody that rode together had huge beards. I'll try to keep an open mind here, but I just don't know what to think about this, but I’d love to be proven wrong.

According to Deadline, Hell’s Angels has received new heat a decade after Barger sold the rights to his memoir to Fox 2000. Scott has remained interested in the project during all this time, but now Fox has brought in screenwriter Scott Frank (Minority Report) to script a rewrite that would cast the story as a Donnie Brasco-type drama. Rourke would play Barger while a younger actor would play, “a cop who attempts to infiltrate the club to investigate alleged criminal activities.” Scott has apparently met with Shia LaBeouf recently, but no details have been made. Deadline adds that their sources say, “the Barger role is so perfectly tailored for Rourke that it is hard to imagine another actor who could more convincingly play a character who wears the hard miles and brawn of a grizzled biker gang veteran.” To that I can only respond, “Well, duh.”