Matt Damon To Star In New RFK Biopic

[GreenScar]

Matt Damon To Star In New RFK Biopic

In this tough marketplace, if you want to make another movie about a complex historical figure like Robert F Kennedy, you'd better bring to the table an actor with chops and bankability to excite a financier. Matt Damon does both those things. I've just heard that a deal closed at New Regency for an RFK film that has Damon attached, with Gary Ross directing and Steven Knight scripting. Damon will wait to see the script before we know whether or not the project will really happen. The film will be based on the Evan Thomas biography His Life, which Landscape Entertainment’s Bob Cooper optioned and will produce with Ross and his Larger Than Life partner Alison Thomas.

While Damon just played South African rugby star Francois Pienaar in Invictus, he has never played a real figure like Kennedy. The film will trace RFK's transformation from the younger brother in the shadow brother President John F Kennedy to a strong national leader in his own right before he was gunned down in 1968. His assassination at the Ambassador Hotel was the backdrop for Emilio Estevez’s Bobby, and Chris Columbus and his 1492 partners are developing The Last Campaign on RFK's presidential run. Ross, too, has long been fascinated with Kennedy and once optioned the Thomas book himself.

Knight, the Eastern Promises writer, just got hired by Columbia Pictures to adapt the Dan Brown novel The Lost Symbol. That came thanks to his work for the studio on Pawn Sacrifice, a drama about Bobby Fischer's unlikely victory over Russian chess champ Boris Spassky. Tobey Maguire is producing and eyeing the Fischer role. Cooper, Ross, and Thomas were already collaborating on another U.S. history project, the Jack Greenberg-Thurgood Marshall story Crusaders, which they’ve set at HBO with Danny Strong writing the script.

[WyldeMan45]

He shouldn't have pissed on Hoffa, Sinatra, and the mob everytime somebody sneezed wrong, but of course none of that had anything to do with the Ambassador Hotel events.

[Idioteque...]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

He shouldn't have pissed on Hoffa, Sinatra, and the mob everytime somebody sneezed wrong, but of course none of that had anything to do with the Ambassador Hotel events.

I do believe in the mob theories as well but we'll never know.


Anyway good for Damon. He deserves one Best Actor win and his role as Francois proved why he's a hard working actor. Ignoring the flawless accent, he did the movie just after Informant which get fat for and then he had to get in a good shape soon after.

[Duffy12]

Please DO NOT let 'Oliver Stone' anywhere near this.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

Please DO NOT let 'Oliver Stone' anywhere near this.

"Gary Ross directing"

[Shanester]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

Please DO NOT let 'Oliver Stone' anywhere near this.

Why NOT?? I LOVE STONE!! JFK is a masterpiece !

"Like Ceasar, he is surround by enemies, and something's underway, but it has no face, yet everybody in the loop knows."

[Shanester]

I wonder if they will show his assissination?? Seems to me the way he died is just as important as how he lived

Speaking of Bio-pics. How come nobody's every done one about Martin Luther King?? His incredible life story would make powerful move if done right

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Shanester

Why NOT?? I LOVE STONE!! JFK is a masterpiece !

"Like Ceasar, he is surround by enemies, and something's underway, but it has no face, yet everybody in the loop knows."

I am sure that it is well crafted in certain ways, however I do not want to have to deal with another half dozen or so 'Nat Geo' and 'History Channel' episodes explaining that the movie is a fallacy of facts and 90% total fiction.

I had enough of that dealing with JFK because of his movie.

Stone just needs to stick to fictional dramas. Please.

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[TylerDurden]

JFK is a really terrible film because it forces you to believe in the conspiracy theory. I don't believe in that theory so the movie has nothing to offer me.

[Moviefan1203]

This sounds like a great film, and I can't wait for it. The Kennedy family in general are really fascinating people, and this should e a very successful film. Hell, JFK is a true masterpiece of a film and I hope this is the same.

[Sussudio]

Originally Posted by TylerDurden

JFK is a really terrible film because it forces you to believe in the conspiracy theory. I don't believe in that theory so the movie has nothing to offer me.

What, how so? It presents a theory that you can choose to accept or deny, same as any other movie whose premise you may agree or disagree with I always find it fascinating to see things from a new angle, even if I don't agree, but that's just me

Anyway, Damon seems like a great choice for RFK. Look forward to his performance.

[Fighter]

Originally Posted by Sussudio

What, how so? It presents a theory that you can choose to accept or deny, same as any other movie whose premise you may agree or disagree with I always find it fascinating to see things from a new angle, even if I don't agree, but that's just me

Anyway, Damon seems like a great choice for RFK. Look forward to his performance.

Loved the quick jump-cut editing in JFK....Oliver Stone did a tremendous job directing. Not a film that I need to see more than once though.

Looking forward to Damon's performance as well.

[TylerDurden]

Originally Posted by Sussudio

What, how so? It presents a theory that you can choose to accept or deny, same as any other movie whose premise you may agree or disagree with I always find it fascinating to see things from a new angle, even if I don't agree, but that's just me

I really don't see how anyone who doesn't agree with the film can sit thru it and be entertained. I guess it's my opinion that a movie's subject matter has to pertain to some aspect of the viewers interest.

[Sussudio]

Originally Posted by TylerDurden

I really don't see how anyone who doesn't agree with the film can sit thru it and be entertained. I guess it's my opinion that a movie's subject matter has to pertain to some aspect of the viewers interest.

I definitely agree with that, but for me, if I only saw movies I agreed with I would consider everything I was starting to see pretty boring after a while. That isn't to say I necessarily want to see "bad" movies sometimes, just movies that challenge my own views or tastes. I occasionally like to be "bothered" by concepts that I don't necessarily see eye to eye with...that's just me though

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by TylerDurden

I really don't see how anyone who doesn't agree with the film can sit thru it and be entertained. I guess it's my opinion that a movie's subject matter has to pertain to some aspect of the viewers interest.

All you needed to take away from JFK was back and to the left, back and to the left, back...........and............to..........the..... ......left..............

mystery solved.

[TylerDurden]

Originally Posted by Sussudio

I definitely agree with that, but for me, if I only saw movies I agreed with I would consider everything I was starting to see pretty boring after a while. That isn't to say I necessarily want to see "bad" movies sometimes, just movies that challenge my own views or tastes. I occasionally like to be "bothered" by concepts that I don't necessarily see eye to eye with...that's just me though

I definetly love almost any kind of movie as you can see in my collection. But a movie that doesn't present both sides of an arguement is flawed. Unless the director only wanted one opinion of an historical account to be heard, which is bias in my view.

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

All you needed to take away from JFK was back and to the left, back and to the left, back...........and............to..........the..... ......left..............

mystery solved.

You know why JFK was assassinated?

...he was in a convertible.

[nathanp]

I'm glad to hear about this, I need something about RFK to make me forget about that awful "Bobby" mess that Estevez directed.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by TylerDurden

I definetly love almost any kind of movie as you can see in my collection. But a movie that doesn't present both sides of an arguement is flawed. Unless the director only wanted one opinion of an historical account to be heard, which is bias in my view.



You know why JFK was assassinated?

...he was in a convertible.

And we all know how much The Comedian hated convertibles

[casablanca3]

Damon FTW

[Elvis]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

Please DO NOT let 'Oliver Stone' anywhere near this.

Why? He was spot on with regards to several issues.

Glad they are doing another film about RFK. Maybe they will tell us why Eugene Hale Brading was arrested at the Dal Tex building in 63 and was also at the Ambassador Hotel that night in 68. Guess we will never know.