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Simon Cowell Gets Star Struck
It may not be the most novel idea in the world, but no one
can fault Simon Cowell for sticking to a winning formula.
The American Idol judge has signed on to produce his first
feature film, the rather familiar sounding Star Struck.
The music-themed project, inspired by 1980's classic Fame,
will be set behind the scenes of a TV singing competition and
will follow the 10 contestants vying to be crowned the winner.
"The story is told through the eyes of those 10 contestants," Cowell
told the Hollywood Reporter. "We want it to be the musical
version of Rocky—an underdog story, a feel-good film."
No word on whether a pohawk-proficient hairstylist has been
hired. "Fame was all about young people wanting to be
famous, and in order to do that, they enrolled in a drama school," Cowell
said. "The difference 25 years later is that everyone
who wants to be famous today signs up for American Idol." In
a case of art imitating life, the 10 contestants who will battle
it out on the big screen must first battle it out in the casting
calls.
The actors who will play the film's leads will be cast
through open auditions held in seven or eight U.S. cities early
next year, much like the would-be American Idol contestants
are forced to endure.
Cowell told the trade that the casting process will be crucial,
as he hopes to book only unknown thespians. As with Idol, Cowell
will be present for most of the traveling auditions.
"To enjoy the film, you've got to watch the actors and
believe that they are contestants on a reality show," he
said.
Cowell has been mulling the movie idea for the past few years,
when he hired veteran British TV writer Jonathan Harvey, whose
credits include a stint on the long-running prime-time U.K.
soap Coronation Street, to begin work on a script. Cowell finally
signed off on a synopsis this week, with the hopes of releasing
it in summer 2008.
"The most important thing for the film was the timing," he
said. "We decided that next summer will be the right time
to launch it. We always believed that a TV show like Idol would
be successful. I have the same feeling about doing this movie."
In the meantime, Cowell has plenty to keep him busy.
His ABC reality series, American Inventor, ended its season
Wednesday with Gregg Chavez, a California firefighter, taking
home the $1 million prize for his Christmas tree fire suppressor,
an invention 10 years in the making. His other summer offering,
NBC's America's Got Talent, wraps its second season Aug. 21.
And then there's Idol.
Auditions for the seventh season of the reality juggernaut
kicked off in San Diego this week, with more than 10,000 wannabes
showing up for their shot at stardom.
The Idol auditions will continue in coming weeks in Dallas,
Omaha, Atlanta, Charleston, Miami and Philadelphia. The show
returns to the Fox airwaves in January, around the same time
auditions kick off for Star Struck.
Here's hoping the movie critics are as brutally honest as Cowell.
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