It's a well-established fact that if you want to get hold of an Oscar, you need to make a film about a dead singer – but it seems like the only dead singer left is that dead bloke from Milli Vanilli, because someone's decided to make a Milli Vanilli movie.
Reports are suggesting that Universal is putting together a Milli Vanilli biopic to be written and directed by Jeff Nathanson. Nathanson also wrote the last two Rush Hour sequels, so we can accurately predict that the Milli Vanilli movie will see Milli Vanilli walk into a room of bad guys, then Milli will say something stupid that enrages the bad guys before Vanilli is forced to kung-fu them out of the room and into another room where exactly the same things happen. Then they win a Grammy, give it back and one of them dies. Oh, and he also wrote Speed 2: Cruise Control, so all this will happen on a fast boat. Girl you know it's true, as a wise man once mimed.
You want to win an Oscar, you make a biopic. It's as simple as that. Ray won an Oscar and the Johnny Cash movie won an Oscar and now there are a flood of biopics heading our way, from Michael Hutchence to Bob Dylan to Marvin Gaye to, um, Missy Elliott – all the big names have got biopics in the pipeline. And plenty of the smaller ones. So many biopics are being made, in fact, that when Jeff Nathanson wanted to make one he was only left with a choice of either Whigfield, Milli Vanilli or rubbish white Canadian rapper Snow. Wisely Nathanson chose Milli Vanilli.
Milli Vanilli, of course, became notorious in 1990 when it was revealed that neither Fabrice Morvan or Rob Pilatus – the two buff himbos that made up Milli Vanilli – had actually sang on any Milli Vanilli recordings. This controversy led to Milli Vanilli returning their Grammy award, making an eventual comeback with their own voices and then partly dying in a puddle of booze and drugs before the album could be released. Actually, that doesn't sound like such a bad film and, since Jeff Nathanson also wrote Catch Me If You Can which is more or less about the same thing, this Milli Vanilli biopic idea doesn't sound so bad. BBC News reports Nathanson as saying:
"I've always been fascinated by the notion of fakes and frauds, and in this case, you have guys who pulled off the ultimate con, selling 30 million singles and 11 million albums and then becoming the biggest laughing stocks of pop entertainment."
So the Milli Vanilli story has enough to make a decent – in theory – movie, but if the film is a success just think of all the peripheral benefits that Milli Vanilli could gain. Look at what happened to Johnny Cash's memory after Walk The Line – and Fabrice Morvan is still alive enough to experience the joys of it first-hand. Maybe it won't be long before his family are angrily storming out of cinemas five times in a row because of the way they were misrepresented in his film…
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Howitxer says
GIRL you KNOW it’s TRUE! OOH OOH OOH_OOH, I love you. This film with kick behinds all over the place