Dropping a huge CMT logo on Slashfilm readers is like lobbing two Wall-E fatties into our communal swimming pool. I had to. The amount of monies offered to Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall to star in CMT Films‘ Crazy Heart was not revealed. This logline is awesome…
Bridges will star as a washed-up, alcoholic country singer who gets his life back on track thanks to a reporter-type (Gyllenhaal). (Female reporters in movies, always presumably getting down!)
CMT Films previously envisioned Dale, the admirably titled Dale Earnhardt story, so maybe Duvall, who is also co-producing, will reprise his role in Days of Thunder by shouting and grinning at cars speedin’ around [...]