By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Reeler Casting Call: Who Will Play Peter Biskind's Moustache?
The news that Peter Biskind’s 2004 opus Down and Dirty Pictures is on its way to a feature film adaptation has me virtually choking on intrigue. Besides the obvious imagination pique juxtaposing director Ken Bowser against plain-old Sha-Na-Na goner Bowzer, I wondered what kind of D-grade Boswell the filmmaker would have to be to follow his 2003 Biskind doc Easy Riders, Raging Bulls with this latest long, loving swallow.
We’ll probably never know, but Variety’s Chris Gardner notes that Bowser finds the author’s sprawling history of the ’90s indie-film boom “outrageous” and “insane,” both qualities that should get plenty of mileage in a film community that finds the book largely “bullshit” and “apocryphal.” The running joke (still not funny, incidentally) around the Web is that neither Miramax nor the Weinstein Company are likely candidates to distribute the film, and Sundance is out as a premiere possibility. A faaaaar more pressing question, however, is what fucking actors would be crazy enough to participate above the line on this thing–the equivalent of pissing in Harvey’s coffee and playing keep-away with Bob’s glasses. And don’t even think any of your future films will appear at Sundance, or at a Sundance lab, or on the Sundance Channel, like, ever.
That said, somebody has to play the brothers, and somebody has to play Robert Redford and Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino and Sundance czar Geoff Gilmore and even distribution legend Jeff Lipsky, I suppose. So who will they be–any suggestions?