Soundstage: Jack Black, Mos Def, Notorious B.I.G., Ice Cube on the Big Screen

There’s already been pretty terrific buzz about Tenacious D funnyman Jack Black and rapper turned serious actor Mos Def’s December film Be Kind Rewind. Imagined by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (and many a White Stripes video) director Michel Gondry, the pair portray two video-store clerks who accidentally erase their store’s entire movie collection and decide to re-create the tapes on their own — filming and starring in flicks from Ghostbusters to Boyz N the Hood. Check out the trailer, it’s pretty damn funny. Diddy oversaw the Notorious B.I.G.’s career when the Brooklyn rapper was alive, and now he’s going to watch over the film based on his late friend’s life. The Biggie biopic Notorious, which has been in the works for seven years, garnered a lot of attention last week when filmmakers announced an open audition to fill its starring role. Barbershop’s George Tillman Jr. is directing the movie, which will focus on a side of the rapper “not seen in public life.” The script is based on Cheo Hodari Cocker’s book Unbelievable: The Life, Death & Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. The movie will be co-produced by Big’s mother, Voletta Wallace. Ice Cube is set to star in the big-screen adaptation of the Shannon Eric Denton/Keith Giffen graphic novel 10, and his film company, Cube Vision, is in negotiations to produce the movie. Cube will play a man who receives junk mail informing him that he’s in a life-or-death competition with nine others, and whoever survives wins. The rapper’s character throws away the letter, but reconsiders ditching the contest when a man toting an ax shows up at his door. This sounds eerily like his last quality flick, Are We Done Yet?
	Publicado: 2007-08-16 Proveedor: Rolling Stone
Etiquetas: Rock News