Stevie Movie in Pre-Production/Lohan to Play Stevie

[BTFLCHLD]

Originally Posted by ELIUD
No that isn't right. "Christine is boring" is an opinion. "Christine is ugly" is a fact.

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

Fact: Christine is pretty.
Opinion: Your avatar is ugly.

Of course, the avatar has now changed.
Look MA...my opinions are influential!!!

[GypsySongbird]

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

Of course, the avatar has now changed.
Look MA...my opinions are influential!!!

aww the world has just become a more beautiful place!

its changed to a picture of christine as well................wonder if thats meant to be sarcasm.............

my sig picture too! wonder if thats meant to be double sarcasm!

hehehe but im not complaining cause that is a gorgeous picture!!!

[tlssln]

Originally Posted by johndoe

Ya, thats what I'm thinking. Straight to DVD. Johnny Cash was a drug addict with a seriously interesting life and a tension filled relationship with his wife that he really could only get an intimate moment with in front of an audience. Ray Charles came from a poor family and rose through to become a super star.Stevie slept with like, everyone in the Eagles, and wrote a few hit songs.

Not to diminish her, because I am a fan, but shes not exactly a mega star like the others.

Umm, ok so Stevie wasn't in prison but she was a drug addict...twice.. and her best friend died not long after giving birth and Stevie married her dead friend's husband...etc. She slept with 2 out of 10 or whatever Eagles, big deal. It's not like she banged a whole football team. Frankly I think Johnny Cash and Ray Charles are boring and if the actors in those movies hadn't done such fantastic jobs portraying them, they would've gone straight to DVD too. That is why they need to cast someone more compelling than Lohan to play Stevie. Her story is interesting they just need someone who can bring it across to people. A more respected actress. And Stevie wrote more than a few hits. She wrote some of the most recognizable and radio-played songs in rock. According to VH1's Behind the Music she's had 17 Top 40 hits. That ain't chopped liver. How many did Ray Charles have?

[tlssln]

Originally Posted by gypsysoul

Can we have some fun and cast this movie please. My dream team:

Cameron Crowe -director

Scarlett johansson - young Stevie /Kate Winslett -older Stevie

Rufus Sewell -young bearded Lindsey / Billy Crudup - clean shaven LB from Tusk onwards

Emma Thompson - Christine
Bob Hoskins -John
McKenzie Crookes (with dark wig) -Mick

Story centres around SN & LB romance from teenagers to The Dance. End with Silver Springs - not a dry eye in the house.

My only request - the Stevie/Mick fling is dealt with by way of voiceover

LOL. I could go with most of your proposal, ESPECIALLY the last part.

[jwd]

Originally Posted by ELIUD

No that isn't right. "Christine is boring" is an opinion. "Christine is ugly" is a fact.

The only time I thought Christine was "ugly" was around the early to mid 80s. She had those real puffy eyes and bloated look. Drugs? Booze? I dunno. I do remember an interview she had on MTV with Mark Goodman when she was promoting her solo record and she looked down right dreadful. Just like she had come off an allnighter. I was really embarrassed for her. That being said though, don't you know that the only FM member you're allowed to criticize is Stevie. I think she's been called "ugly" at least a few times on these boards.

[David]

Originally Posted by jwd

I do remember an interview she had on MTV with Mark Goodman when she was promoting her solo record

Joe, you & I don't chat goodnaturedly any more the way we used to. I miss those old days.

[jwd]

Originally Posted by David

Joe, you & I don't chat goodnaturedly any more the way we used to. I miss those old days.

Quite honestly David, I don't remember those days!

[BTFLCHLD]

Originally Posted by jwd

Quite honestly David, I don't remember those days!

Yes, it was much like yesterday.

Nice to be missed JWD?

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by David

None taken. Excellent point! But I can no more pick one rhetorical stance & stick with it than I can pick one mood & stick with it! I'm a seething, roiling cauldron of moods, tones, styles. I'll play the orator as well as Nestor/Deceive more slily than Ulysses could/And, like a Sinon, take another Troy/I can add colours to the chameleon/Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, etc. etc.

as long as you don't start talking like that guy from the sound and the fury, i think i can follow.

[Sahara]

To be honest I can't see this happening, with Lohan or without.

But if it does...

Johnny Depp shall be Buckingham!!

[gypsysoul]

Johnny Depp shall be Buckingham!!


Oh nice one Sahara.
Johnny would certainly carry off that 1987 break-up. 'Get this schizophrenic bitch off me'


ps got your pm, will reply very soon.

[MirrorInTheSky]

This thread is too long for me to read everything, so this may be old news, but (from Fox News)....

Young Lohan does warble a couple of tunes in “Prairie” with a lot of panache, but they are as unlike the two shrill albums she made for Tommy Mottola as possible.

“Universal Music just signed her for three albums,” Dina said, “but it’s going to be under Jimmy Iovine. They have to figure out what to do with her.”

Did Jimmy work w/ her on EOS, or is this a new Stevie connection???

[Dreamz19]

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

A friend who works in the movie business here in L.A. just called to tell me there is definitely a movie in the works based on Stevie's life and they are going after Lindsay Lohan for the lead. I asked if Stevie was involved but he didn't know. I would love to know more!

Lohan as Stevie? HELL NO!

A Stevie movie sounds good to me and I do like Lindsay Lohan as an actress (only). But after watching how horrible she was with EO17 the last thing I want is to see her in a movie playing Stevie. I know she wouldn't be actually singing but she performed EO17 badly and she can't work the stage. If she can't even pull that off I don't think she could pull off playing Stevie.

[Dreamz19]

Originally Posted by gypsysoul

Firstly, I think a film about the Buckinghamnicks love affair (with a good script) would make an excellent story a la Walk the Line and set in the context of Fleetwood Mac, especially the Rumours era. This way the rest of the band would not be diminished but equally would not be the focus.

The couple's songs about each other would provide a fantastic, dramatic musical backdrop.

The whole 'will they/won't they' could easily keep a non Fleetwood Mac audience enthralled just as Walk the line did for people (like me) who knew nothing of that relationship.

I don't think Stevie alone is a good enough subject: she did all the drugs and sleeping around but she neither died young nor came through to live a happy life as most people would want it to end ie with love/marriage/children.

Unless Stevie's life is put in the context of another person whom the audience can also care about it will have no real substance or emotional pull for them. Single rock star leads a life of drugs and short affairs - so what?

Therefore LB would have to be an integral part, he is the only enduring love she has had and therefore the only one people would actually care about.
The likes of Don Henley would simply be cameos that music fans would recognize but would mean little to most people (the Eagles were big, he personally was not.)

Secondly, cast: i would choose Scarlett Johansson as Stevie and get someone to do the singing. Scarlett is an excellent actress, young enough to pull off innocent BN Stevie and later more worldly Stevie.
As for LB, my first choice woul dbe Billy Crudup but if we're talking young Lindsey then possibly British actor Rufus Sewell.

I remember lurking at a Stevie board last year and I saw this topic come up about who could play her. I said then that Scarlett would be a good choice when I saw a pic of Stevie that reminded me of her.

[Dreamz19]

Originally Posted by ELIUD

All I was saying was that a person doesn't have to be as famous as Johnny Cash to validate making a movie about them and with the right script and marketing/ad campaign, a movie about Stevie could be huge.

And I would WHOLEY recommend "Freeway" and "Election" to see the true talent of Reese Witherspoon. Both performances were outstanding.

You totally read my mind. For those who don't think Reese is talented please view 'Freeway" and "Election." That girl was amazing in those movies. She really pulled off those characters well. She took more risk back then with her characters. I wish she would do that now.