Deadline is reporting that Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper (American Sniper) is in talks with Warner Bros. to make his directorial debut with a remake of classic musical A Star Is Born.
In the works for a while now, the new version of the film was initially set to be directed by Cooper’s American Sniper director Clint Eastwood, but went on the back-burner after Eastwood chose to make Sniper and last year’s Jersey Boys instead. Word is that once Cooper has finished his run in The Elephant Man, which moves from Broadway to London’s West End very soon, he will start work on the film.
In addition, the studio are hoping that Cooper will take on the male lead in the film, which had Tom Cruise (Edge of Tomorrow), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street), Will Smith (Focus) and Christian Bale (Knight of Cups) all rumoured for at different points, and still firmly have eyes on the casting of Beyonce for the female lead, who was rumoured to have been circling the project when Eastwood was involved, though no official offer has been made to her as of yet.
First released in 1937 with Frederic March and Janet Gaynor, A Star is Born has since been remade twice already: in 1954 with Judy Garland and James Mason, then again in 1976 with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.
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Originally published March 25, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
