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Rumor: Brett Ratner In Talks To Direct Milli Vanilli Movie

Posted on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

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The Daily Swarm is reporting a story from Hits Daily Double that hack director Brett Ratner is in talks to direct a movie based on the Milli Vanilli story for Universal. Rush Hour screenwriter Jeff Nathanson has written the screenplay about “one producer and two lip-syncing male models who sold millions of records and won a Grammy before their scam was revealed.” Kathleen Kennedy is attached as executive producer.

I hate to report on news or rumors from websites I’ve never heard of, especially when I can’t seem to find the news report on the source site, but sometimes the story is too good to pass up. The project is real, and was even announced in 2007, but as for the Ratner talks — For now lets mark this purely as a rumor.

As much as I dislike Ratner, I think he would be a good fit for this project, especially considering he can relate to the material — Ratner is a mediocre director pretending to be a good director. I kid, I kid… the shot was open, I had to take it. But honestly, tackling a Milli Vanilli biography could mean one less franchise film that Ratner might ruin. And that reason alone makes it worth it. I would rather Ratner stick to making movies about Milli Vanilli and Hugh Hefner over a remake of Conan or Beverly Hills Cop sequel.

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  • freemachine
    WTF? This has to be a joke.
  • One can only hope. Why would anyone want or need to see a movie about lip-syncs?
  • Vinyard
    April Fool's was 21 days ago... so what's up?
    To be fair to Ratner, he'd make a great producer. Yeah, you can cringe at that notion, but I say that hoping producing would take up so much of his time so as to make it impossible for him to direct. He's not a terrible director, either. But, Peter is right, Ratner is mediocre.
    I listened to the commentary he did for X3 a few years ago and was impressed with how interested he was in choosing his cast, especially post-Hard Candy / pre-Juno Ellen Page.
    I hope this Milli Vanili thing is a rumor for the sake of society.
    But moreover, I'd like to see Ratner as a producer: I think he'd make a pretty good one.
  • I almost want to agree with you, but its hard to when most of the projects he's been involved on as a producer have sucked -- Code Name: The Cleaner, Running Scared, Santa's Slay, Double Take
  • JD_
    Running Scared did not suck
  • Opps, you're right, for some reason I was confusing running scared for a different film.

    Okay, so one good movie
  • shameless
    to be honest, nothing makes me happier than peter calling brett ratner a hack. he IS a hack. he is the corniest, dumbest director in hollywood. thank you peter, dont let brett ratner's suck...suck you in...
  • You're 3rd paragraph was so true and I completely agree with it...
  • I'm all for a new Beverly Hills Cop. Can't be much worse than John Landis' third installment. Or can it?
  • This is obviously false.
  • Was Milli Vanilli in other countrys cool? Not only in Germany? In GB and the USA are always better artists.
  • This sounds like a bullshit rumor. I am not sure if many youths today have heard of Milli Vanilli and whether they know the scandal behind the fake duo. Secondly, I just DON'T see anything "studio-ish" about the band. Yes, it would make a good TV movie of the week for VH-1, but I can't see this backed by a major Hollywood studio or a big name director.
  • jlr
    I'm always shooting Ratner down. I almost blew a gasket when they were gonna let him direct Conan.

    But here, finally, is a project that's a perfect fit for Mr. Ratner.

    Go get 'em, Bret!
  • Uwe Boll at least belives in the horrible movies he makes enough to go out and get funding himself and takes he big chances, I admire him for that. Ratner on the other hand tries to remain as middle of the road as possible so he can keep getting work. I'm with Peter in that I would much rather see a director fail doing something completely original(ie Southland Tales) then see them do an adverage job on something we've seen a million times (ie Rush Hour 2 & 3).

    With that said I think Ratner gets more heat then he should for X3 it wasn't great but it's a better movie then it gets credit for.
  • Anti-Septic
    The only interesting thing this movie could bring is the actual people pulling the strings behind the curtain. In all that drama, whoever was pulling the strings got a free pass and received zero negative press, it was all on these two wannabe pop stars who were just crushed in a tidal wave of criticism. From interviews I have watched at the time, It was never their idea to lip sync a video. They were just hired to perform in a music video and it spiraled out of control as they gained popularity, It was only supposed to be a one time thing and the people behind the scene were raking in cash hand over fist!

    So this may or may not be interesting to you, I was never a fan of this pop group but I would like to know who was actually pulling the strings and would like to see them get some crap in their life as well, they destroyed these two young men.
  • I really can't see who's going to be interested in this film.

    The only possible way to make a movie on relatively forgetful 80's musical fodder slightly interesting and appealing is to highly exaggerate Milli Vanilli's "career" stories by adding funny interracial interactions, an intricate Chinese/American mob scheme, and Jackie Chan along with Chris Rock as the two respective forgettable members of Milli Vanilli.

    If not that a Milli Vanilli biopic just sounds incredibly unnecessary and pointless but if it keeps Ratner busy why not right?
  • shameless
    well hopefully, if this movie does get made, it will be the bomb that blows brett retard out of hollywood for good
  • Cue Bret Ratner hater comments.

    I can see he isn't a good director at all.
    But still, he's better than Uwe Boll.

    I can admit that its a stupid idea for a film.
  • For me, There is nothing worse that mediocrity. I would rather watch, laugh and make fun of a horrible Uwe Boll film than watch a vanilla Brett Ratner movie.
  • gah
    completely agreed. It confuses me that it's gotten to the point where Ratner can demand an inflated salary like he does. What exactly does he bring to a project that someone else can't? it's not like he's a name draw. in fact, his name has the opposite effect for most people who are industry aware.
  • I definitly agree with you, however, with other topics (i.e. Guitar Hero commercial) the hater comments were ridiculous.
    I don't like him, but I think the hate is ridiculous.
  • Uwe Boll at least belives in the horrible movies he makes enough to go out and get funding himself and he takes big chances, I admire him for that. Ratner on the other hand tries to remain as middle of the road as possible so he can keep getting work. I'm with Peter in that I would much rather see a director fail doing something completely original(ie Southland Tales) then see them do an adverage job on something we've seen a million times (ie Rush Hour 2 & 3).

    With that said I think Ratner gets more heat then he should for X3 it wasn't great but it's a better movie then it gets credit for.
  • I know what you are all saying.
    And I totally agree with all of you.

    I'm just sick of comments like the one below me (by Shameless).
  • Everyone knows that the Rat sucks, but this might be right up his alley...
  • All you had to say was Milli Vanilli. I don't care who directs, I'm there.
  • Infrafan
    Now this makes sense.
  • Mayroth
    Ugh. Ratner sucks. Hes the guy that ruined X-Men. I would have rather had Ratner ruin Superman then have him ruin X-Men.
  • Dan J
    A little poetic that an infamously horrible music group that corrupted the industry will be directed by a man that desecrated X-Men.
  • Peter's dead on about Ratner. He's 100 percent hack, which makes him just right for this. Well, sort of: A story like this either needs 100 percent hack (Ratner) or super-ironic post-modernist artsy-fartsy director (Gondry, Jonze). Can't go with anything in between. A plain-ol' competent director would be useless.

    Granted, either way would probably blow. It's Milli Vanilli, for fuck's sake.
  • edog
    This combination will bring the end of days.
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