Amazon Buys Lucille Ball Biopic Starring Cate Blanchett

Who'll play me?

r1, Lens Dunham.

This should cover from Mame until her death.

Most interesting part of her life. Chain-smoking delusional bitter bitch.

I had no idea Cate was 48. She looks great for her age.

Hasn't this been done before? I'm not interested and not because I was not a fan of hers. Not interested because she was an original and any copy would be just a faded memory. Now if you made a production around her making the movie "Mame" - that might be interesting.

Cate is all wrong for this, it will be shit.

r6 Amen to that. She ruined "The Aviator" trying to play Katherine Hepburn, so now she's cast as Lucy which is even a bigger stretch for her.

As in the straight male producer who sleeps with her rather than the straight female or gay casting director who knows she is all wrong for this?

R8 Harvey??

It was a mistake to not to cast Whoopi Goldberg as Lucy.

RED ALERT! RED ALERT!

Potentially massive hemorrhaging detected in the Turbo-drive Tanks! Activate the Dilithium Crystals for Warp-drive departure, NOW!

Somewhere Debra Messing is sticking pins into a Cate Blanchett doll.

These things never work with celebrity subjects who are SO known and familiar to the audience. It becomes a wig parade and is always so unsatisfying.

"My Week With Marilyn" manages to barely work because of a few things. Marilyn Monroe certainly has an indelible image, but has been dead for 50+ years and even her image has blurred over time. Lucy's has not because we still watch "I Love Lucy" 60+ years later and have such a firm grasp on her persona and image. Why bother?

R13, I love “wig parade!”

Cate won an Oscar as Hepburn so not everyone thought she was bad in the role.

Frances McDormand for Vivian Vance.

She's too old to portray Lucy as a starlet in the 30s and 40s. Even the 50s will be a stretch, as Lucy would still be younger than the near 50 year old Blanchett...actresses and their egos, I swear.

Cate should hire Jeff of Punchy Players as a Lucy coach.

Who plays the stewardess?

I advise against the whole damn thing.

R13 Catherine Hicks did a wonderful MM movie years ago for television. Of course, she was still largely unknown at the time, but she managed to create a rather realistic portrayal of both the movie star and Norma Jean. . Michelle Williams looked more like some frumpy frau who dressed up as Marilyn Monroe for Halloween.

R15 It was a makeup Oscar for Elizabeth. Her Hepburn is one of her weakest performances.

Who’s playing Desi?

Drew Barrymore would make a much more interesting choice. Bobby Cannavale as Desi.

[quote]Cate won an Oscar as Hepburn

And "Crash" won an Oscar for Best Picture even though it was a piece of crap

Will this biopic tell the true story or will it be a valentine to Lucille Ball worshippers? I hope they will show Lucille Ball for what she was and this includes the negative aspects of her personality. Also, I hope it doesn't make Desi the villain. I always thought he was a victim of that monstrous cunt.

Will it include the now infamous "airplane incident"?

r26, you mean the sneaking a cheese aboard the plane?

Holy shit this thing is still alive.

Oh, I’m laughing already.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaa!

I must be the only gay who is not a fan of Lucy...

Who will play Gary Morton?

Next year they can remake The Beverly Hillbillies. Cate can play Granny Clampett and Miss Jane Hathaway.

Lucile will look like this:

R12 has she got extra pins for Aman-da-man-da-man-da-manda-manda Bynes?

^^and Drake & Josh?

CAN KEITH THIBODEAUX DO A CAMEO AS AN AGING LITTLE RICKY ?

I have sufficient.

Was Carrot Top not available?

Can we get Gary to talk Cate out of it?

Didn’t Gillian Anderson do Lucy in American Gods? I recall her being quite good. I guess hot off Judy, it would be too soon for Renee to do this. Her body/face seem more suitable than Cate.

Renee is even older than Cate

I guess they couldn't get Renee Zellweger.

What is the angle they're going to have on the subject? They've got to have SOMETHING, because this is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard.

Much better than Cate.

I'm oddly interested in this. I never actively liked I Love Lucy. But in the boring summer days of the early 90s before streaming, cable (we were poor) and the internet, my 13 year old self was stuck watching it. So my sisters and I watched every episode about 50 thousand times! It grew on me. And I think Blanchett is divine. I wonder what part of her life they'll focus on?

The Deb Messing poster is awesome.

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