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Zeta-Jones Stomps Out Pic
Oscar winner could potentially star with Keanu Reeves in Lana Turner/Johnny
Stompanato biopic for Warner Bros.
Thursday, August 25, 2005
By Mark Umbach
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Reeves joins Catherine Zeta-Jones in biopic
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Lana Turner and Johnny Stompanato had one of the most fiery, exciting relationships
in Hollywood during the '50s, and now Warner Bros. Pictures is working to bring
that romance to the big screen. The studio has started negotiations with Oscar
winner Catherine Zeta-Jones and Keanu Reeves to play the lovers in Stompanato,
which will be directed by Adrian Lyne.
Penned by David and Janet Peoples, with a rewrite done by Sebastian Gutierrez,
the project centers on the tumultuous relationship between Hollywood starlet
Turner (Zeta-Jones) and Stompanato, a bodyguard and the right-hand man of mobster
Mickey Cohen. The romance came to end on April 4, 1958, (Good Friday) when Turner's
daughter, Cheryl Crane, stabbed Stompanato to death in what was later ruled
a justifiable homicide. Rumors surrounded the death, including those that Crane
and Stompanato had been lovers and that Turner actually killed Stompanato and
let her 14-year-old daughter take the wrap.
The studio would like to begin production on the project sometime in January.
Contrafilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson will produce with Erwin Stoff and Bill
Lischak. Kevin McCormick will be the executive overseeing for Warner Bros.
Repped by CAA, Zeta-Jones, who won her Oscar for her supporting role in Chicago,
will next be seen with Antonio Banderas in The Legend of Zorro. Her recent
credits include Ocean's Twelve, The Terminal and Intolerable
Cruelty. She is also currently attached to Mimi Leder's Smoke & Mirrors
and Joel Zwick's Coming Out.
Reeves, also repped by CAA, is right at home on the Warners lot. He shot The
Matrix series and, more recently, Constantine for the studio. His
upcoming projects include Alejandro Agresti's Il Mare and Richard Linklater's
A Scanner Darkly.
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