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Crowe Hoping for Beautiful Career Change
The Australian actor has already narrated a documentary about the Australian surf community of Maroubra. Now, he’s going to direct the feature.
Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 2:45 PM
By Dennis Michael
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Crowe at the March 7th Syndey premiere of the Bra Boys documentary
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Why do actors become directors? Because they can.
Not always because they can direct, but because they can pressure studios to let them try. Whether or not Russell Crowe can direct is still a mystery, but apparently we’re going to find out.
Daily Variety reports the actor is now set to direct his first feature, The Bra Boys, a fact-based tale about three brothers who began a surfing counterculture movement in the Sydney, Australia suburb of Maroubra. Stuart Beattie, who scripted Crowe’s western remake 3:10 to Yuma and helped launch Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean theme park ride into the motion picture stratosphere, is set to write the script.
It will be based partly on the 2007 documentary of the same name, narrated by Crowe and released Down Under this past weekend, as well as on an as-yet-unpublished book covering the subject. One can’t help but think of the 2005 Kiwi tale The World’s Fastest Indian, in which Roger Donaldson directed Sir Anthony Hopkins in a feature film based on a 1971 documentary about the real guy, Burt Munro, also directed by Donaldson.
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BraBoys.com.au
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The combined Mayors of Maroubra
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Brian Grazer, the suddenly excised Op-Ed pages guest editor of this Sunday’s L.A. Times, will produce. It’s a smart choice for a first-time director. Grazer and Imagine Entertainment partner Ron Howard are responsible for A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man and the upcoming Crowe-Denzel Washington project American Gangster.
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