Nicole Kidman is Valerie Plame for Doug Liman
Valerie Plame Biopic (2009) Movie — By Nix on February 13, 2008
There is good news and bad news for the producers of the upcoming Valerie Plame biopic (no title as of yet), and it’s this: the good news is that they’ve gotten Nicole Kidman to star in the film as outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, but the bad news is that Nicole Kidman hasn’t opened a successful movie in, er, ever? Well, it’s been a while. But that’s not going to stop director Doug Liman, who has come onboard to direct the project.
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“Nicole Kidman,” director Doug Liman revealed. “She’s perfect if you’ve ever met Valerie. Nicole was supposed to play Jane Smith in ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith.’ We owe a movie together! That’s an unrequited thing between me and an actor where I fell in love with them for a role and never get to consummate it.”
That Doug Liman himself is attached to the project is something of a surprise all by itself, but a perfect fit, the “Jumper” director said, based on his history working with [REDACTED]…his training in [REDACTED]…and, above all, his unique approach to the material – perhaps a necessity given that the Plame’s memoir, “Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House,” was heavily censored by the CIA.
Obviously the whole [REDACTED] stuff is a gag by the MTV folks, in case you were wondering.
In any case, Doug Liman directing a mostly action-less movie? That’s something of a surprise. That is, unless ninja assassins were coming out of the woodworks to kill Valerie Plame that no one told me about.
But I’m still curious how they’re going to run with this movie; Valerie Plame, with the help of a willing media and a fame-seeking husband, has re-cast herself in the role of a superspy whose life was endangered when she was outed by Bush et al. True? Not true? Will Doug Liman care, or will he just use this as another excuse for Hollywood to bash Bush?
Whatever the case, it doesn’t sound nearly as interesting as what Rod Lurie is doing with his own Valerie Plame-esque movie, “Nothing But the Truth”. Wouldn’t it be funny if the “fictional” telling of the story (Lurie’s version) ended up being more real than the “bio pic” by Liman?
Update
Okay, okay, I take back what I said about Kidman’s box office prowess. Perhaps I was mistaken. Sheesh.
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Considering the same studio that did Invasion is responsible for this movie then I dare say that they couldn’t give a toss that she hasn’t opened a movie since The Interpreter and Bewitched in 2005 since they opened at $22m and $20m respectively. So, she hasn’t opened a movie since 2006? wow! talk about crisis.
It also sounds like she was cast ages ago and that it is just being revealed now so I double dare say that they really don’t care about her BO numbers.
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The Golden Compass has made over 325 million dollars overseas and 70 million in the US for a total of 395 million so why are people saying Nicole Kidman can’t open a movie? Check the facts before making negative comments.
People didn’t go to see “The Golden Compass” because of Nicole Kidman. They went to see that giant talking polar bear and subversive Church-bashing. Kidman is a damn fine actress, but the only reasons she’s successful at all is because she was married to Tom Cruise and she wore a prosthetic nose in a movie no one else saw.