Vanilla Ice Biopic with Dave Franco is a Go
Collaborate and listen, because Ice is back with a brand new invention. And that invention is a biopic where Dave Franco slips into Vanilla Ice’s borrowed hammer pants. The news, which came late Wednesday, confirmed Franco will play the infamous rapper in To the Extreme.
Franco confirmed the news himself to Insider while also revealing the film is being imagined as a Disaster Artist and Ed Wood-like biopic about musician Robert Matthew Van Winkle’s life. That earlier 2017 film, which co-starred Franco, was written and directed by his brother James Franco, who also led the movie by playing Tommy Wiseau, the legendarily awful filmmaker behind cult classic train wreck, The Room.
Franco opened up about the project to Insider when he said, “We have been in development for a while but we are inching closer and closer to preproduction.” He went on to compare it to The Disaster Artist by adding,...
Franco confirmed the news himself to Insider while also revealing the film is being imagined as a Disaster Artist and Ed Wood-like biopic about musician Robert Matthew Van Winkle’s life. That earlier 2017 film, which co-starred Franco, was written and directed by his brother James Franco, who also led the movie by playing Tommy Wiseau, the legendarily awful filmmaker behind cult classic train wreck, The Room.
Franco opened up about the project to Insider when he said, “We have been in development for a while but we are inching closer and closer to preproduction.” He went on to compare it to The Disaster Artist by adding,...
- 7/22/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
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