Posted by Di§turbed at spider-ti062.proxy.aol.com on November 09, 2000 at 15:07:27:
In Reply to: Yeah, but... posted by maxim401 on November 09, 2000 at 14:50:33:
To answer your question: I really don't know.
Rushmore and Bottle Rocket are two of my favorite films, and I'm trying to keep abreast of developments (I've read the Tenenbaums script) but I just don't really know.
The role of Royal Tenenbaum was obviously written for Murray. But then I heard that Murray was doing Press Your Luck* instead and that Gene Hackman was in the role. Recently the trades announced that Hackman AND Murray are in the film...perhaps Murray took a smaller role, or perhaps he's Royal after all. I don't know.
I'd love to see Murray in the role, but Gene the Machine would definitely do it well. Other cast members include the Owen and Luke Wilson, Ben Stiller, Danny Glover and Gwyneth Paltrow.
*Press Your Luck is a true story about a guy who...shit, I don't remember, I think he was unemployed for some reason...anyway, he became obsessed with that gameshow Press Your Luck (remember...No Whammies, No Whammies, No Whammies...STOP!) and watched it so much that he memorized the sequence in which the things lit up. Eventually he went on the show and won a record amount of money. Sounds like a very cool project. Great for Murray.