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Deadline told you Monday that Warren Beatty was getting behind the camera for the first time since Bulworth. Paramount and Beatty are keeping details under wraps, but here’s what I’ve heard: He will play Howard Hughes, but it’s not really a biopic; part of the plot involves an affair he had with a young woman in the later years of his life. I’ve heard that he’s going top shelf for the ensemble cast he is putting together. Here is who he’s meeting with: Andrew Garfield, Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Shia La Beouf, Jack Nicholson, Evan Rachel Wood and Rooney Mara. Beatty has wanted to play Hughes forever. The courtship of Baldwin is particularly intriguing, since in Martin Scorsese’s superb Howard Hughes movie The Aviator, Baldwin played Hughes’ main adversary, Pan Am World Airways founder Juan Trippe. We’ll see which actors end up making the movie, but it certainly sounds like this project that Beatty wrote and has ruminated on for years is going to happen in a most ambitious way.
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I don’t like this . I want to see Christopher Nolan’s interpretation of Howard Hughes’ biopic first.
How about Nolan and Beatty teaming up on this project? Now THAT would be awesome!
Don’t worry, dude. By the time Beatty finishes writing, rewriting, re-rewriting, getting other writer to rewrite, rewriting the new rewrite, shooting, reshooting, pushing back the schedule to accomodate more reshoots, editing, re-editing, getting mates like Shandling to make notes about the editing etc. Nolan will have released The Dark Knight Rises and the Hughes film (as well as possibly another two other films).
If you are wondering where that comes from, read about the making of ‘Town and Country’.
All wryly so, “News Hit”, but really now – what a downright deep pleasure to hear Warren is finally taking up the megaphone to make/star-in a new film and with such a cast of hopefuls! His assaying HH will be thrilling, I reckon.
In other words, yes we’ll tire of waiting as before, but that’s a small price to shell out for what we will likely get, right?
Of all his films, both as an actor and writer/director, this is doubly joyous because no doubt the most personal film of a very private and hugely brilliant man!
Hip-Hip!!
Hey-bop-a-ree-bop
One of the people he’s meeting with is his wife, Annette Bening? I wonder how that meeting will go….
She should be ‘offer only’.
Hi Annette’s Agent. Um, well, I really want to meet for that key role. I know she’s my wife, but I’d really like her to tape. I know she’s like Oscar nominated a few times, but I’ve actually won, hello, I have a right to my ego. You know, I might actually just hold open auditions, why don’t you have her just come to that. Thanks.
CANNOT WAIT. BEATTY POWER!!!!!
I would pay to see that movie.
So he’s “meeting” with Annette Bening? Wonder how he chose her!
He’s meeting with his wife (Annette Bening)? Lol, is she being put on tape?
Poor Nolan. Will he ever get his Hughes project made?
I never heard about Nolan being attached to any Hughes’ biopic. Frankly he should stay away from that genre of film.
“…since in Martin Scorsese’s superb Howard Hughes movie The Aviator…”
Oh, stop it! Looking back people need to take off their Scorsese goggles and admit that film was a shameless love letter to a maniac who was more than capable of harming others years later. DiCaprio and a handful of others were woefully miscast for that expensive Vanity Fair live-action centerfold.
I look forward to this, I hope Warren is up to task for how crazy latter Howard Hughes was.
A biopic of Hughes (particularly the later of this life) has long been something of a passion project for Nolan and it was widely assumed that it would be his next film after Batman 3.
Well, There is a movie God. I have heard about and waited for this movie to be made. I have known about it for 25 years. That’s right 25 years…and who knows how long that light bulb went off in Warren’s head. Can’t imagine the pressure he has placed on himself to get it done right. DP and Production designer are more important then any other actor except maybe Annette Benning. I wonder if one of his kids will play a young Howard Hughes? The stories are known about the making of Warren’s movies. Hopefully, with age and family he will be a littleundertanding to studio and crew. But the Movie God looked down and said “Have to it my Son, and make that movie. All the best/Robbie Goldstein
Um, hello? Didn’t Kevin Iwashina develop this EXACT project with Ashley Tisdale attached?!
I would much rather see Nolan do a latter day Hughes movie than Beatty. Beatty is a bit overrated both as an actor and director and I can only imagine, is a bit rusty behind the camera. Nolan is in his prime, and one of the best creative forces in Hollywood.
I also quite liked “The Avaitor.” It holds up in repeat viewings.
Don’t care who says different: Bullworth was one of the best movies I’d seen in a decade, when it came out, and it’s still great today. Script, production, and performance. I’m rooting for Beattie in everything he does.
I wonder what outrageous demands Ms. Bening will insist on in the sure to be contentious, protracted contract negotiations.
If I were her I’d definitely go Pay Or Play. With a good back end.
Don’t tell me Alec Baldwin is going to be an airline exec again. Im sure it would be a different character, but seriously, another HH movie for Baldwin? Warren Beaty has my attention to say the least.
It’s typecasting.
How do you cast the young Warren Beatty? He is an icon of cinema even more so than many other stars of his generation, and the idea of casting the young Beatty seems like a very difficult task, because he has to cast both a young Beatty and Howard Hughes. Does anyone think there are any younger actors up to the task?
Taylor Lautner. Right. Cause like everyone wants him and think he’s worth 7.5M. Just wait until that stupid thriller he’s in bombs because he can’t act and so wooden.
Ryan Reynolds would make a good young Beatty and it’s a good bet he won’t be busy shooting GREEN LANTERN 2.
Love it!! Beatty is one of the best filmmakers and has wanted to do something about Hughes since mid 1970′s. Psyched to see this one.
Still think that nothing comes close to the Tommy Lee Jones made for TV biopic that was shown in the late 70s
I hope he doesn’t do a glossy, romanticized version of Hughes’ life like he did with the overrated Bugsy or like Scorsese did with the turgid, embalmed The Aviator. Both movies suck. I never for a second believed Beatty as a hair-trigger, out of control psycho like the real Siegel, and Hughes was, among many other unsavory things, an insane racist. I hope this isn’t another whitewash.
That’s what I love about the internet. Hughes was an insane racist? Hmmm ever hear of the Houston race riots that occurred when he was young? Hughes lived longer then any person with chronic pain than any other person in history. When he died it was revealed he suffered multiple concussions in plane crashed. Please don’t believe every tell all book you read…Good example: Hoover was a drag queen right? Google it and find out the sources before you dismiss someone as “racist and insane’!
Hey Houston,
Why don’t you do some research and you’ll find out what precipitated the Houston riots and you seem to be suggesting that they are justification for Hughes’ lifelong hatred, yes, hatred of Black people to an insane, yes, insane degree! YOU LOOK IT UP!People like you make me sick, always defending/excusing racism.
Scorcese’s version was excreble, with Leonardi looking like a high schooler playing grownup.
Beatty at least looks like a man who could have lived that life.
Leo looks like stepped out of an arcade.
I love Beatty (always have, always will) and his beautiful vivacious wife Annette! I’ve thought she was brilliant in Valmont and everything else she’s ever been in. Perhaps Beatty isn’t “meeting” with Annette; maybe it was easier to put her in the bunch for Fleming rather than explain otherwise; or, maybe Beatty is calling her in for a meeting for fun…after all it is how they met and I remember him claiming he know she would change his life the moment she walked into the room their first “meeting” (casting for Bugsby). So don’t be so hard on the man…maybe they just want to have fun reliving those moments again. I think its romantic, playful. As far as Hughes…can’t wait to see it. Luckily I worked on Bulworth briefly and met them both and their son. Got say, they are both so classy and gracious. Everyone was so cool on that set…I love Beatty’s work both as actor and director, his work has a romantic core and appeal in his storytelling that is his and is a reminder of golden Hollywood. As far as Hughes, a fascinating subject and I loved The Aviator too and look forward to Beatty’s for sure.
It should be a great film, from a great filmmaker…I am also convinced there will be a great deal of WB’s “Psychic humour” injected, into such a important man, in america’s history.. Without Howard Hughes, no Airplanes, challenges to the Politicans, DOD, Vegas, no jane russell, and so much more..Good luck Warren, this film should outdo “REDS” and “Bulworth” combined!
Here’s something that may be passed on to Warren
Beatty. Another story about Howard Hughes where a photograph was witnessed being taken of him with two of his aides in front of the Mint Hotel in Las Vegas in March of 1971. You can find the description on “youtube” titled “Howard Hughes Looking for the Picture.”
In his later years Howard Hughes did suffer from dementia and germaphobia, but those who think that he was born a hard core racist should read,”Hidden Genius,the Black engineer Behind Howard Hughes”, they will see a side of Hughes that the world knows little of. Frank Calvin Mann(1908-1992) Was Black and a friend of and troubleshooter for HH for fifty years. He worked out problems in the design of the Spruce Goose and other aircraft. Because Howard Hughes’ white engineers wouldn’t work with Frank Mann,he would dismiss them and bring Frank into his hanger in the back of a panel truck or hidden under blankets to help solve the problems. The cover of the book has a picture of a teenage Howard Hughes posing with Frank and another young Black man in front of a biplane(circa 1920).
Thank you for reminding everyone about Howard’s problems. Being a germaphobic do you really think he would be found lying in the desert after coming from some sex ranch?
Maybe this new series of movies which are due to come out will tell the truth about Hughes.
I ran into him in front of the Las Vegas Mint Hotel in March of 1971. A photograph was taken of Howard Hughes with long hair standing with, Levar B. Myler (a senior Penthouse aide) standing to his left and John H. Meier, (his business adviser, who is better known for his involvement in Watergate),to his right, Parked at the curb behind them was a black Cadillac limo with two more men sitting inside. John M. Holmes Jr.,( another senior Penthouse aide) in the front passengers seat and an unidentified driver.
If your curious about how I know; I can say that it wasn’t Dummar, that gave Hughes, his last quarter in front of a Las Vegas strip hotel.
Thanks again for helping to set the facts straight about Mr. Hughes. I am looking forward to the future when the real truth will be told about him.
If you want the complete description of the picture take a look at my video on “Youtube” titled “Howard Hughes Looking For The Picture”.
Jack
I’m with “News Hit.” Beatty’s notorious at this point for mentioning interest in projects that never get made. I’ll believe it when he starts shooting.
Also, while it’s true he’s a talented producer, the Peter Biskind biography “Star” details the torture he puts his collaborators through (including screwing Bo Goldman out of screenplay credit on “Dick Tracy”), which tends to leave a sour taste in one’s mouth. Lots of people–Scorsese & Nolan among them–are able to make great movies *without* treating everyone involved horribly, so I have little patience for that kind of behavior.