{"id":292045,"date":"2010-02-08T05:42:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T10:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=92225"},"modified":"2010-02-08T05:42:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T10:42:21","slug":"russell-crowe-beyonce-%e2%80%9ca-star-is-born%e2%80%9d-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/292045","title":{"rendered":"Russell Crowe Beyonce \u201cA Star Is Born\u201d Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Crowe is set to share the screen with singing star Beyonce in a forthcoming remake of the classic motion picture <em>A Star Is Born<\/em>, London&#8217;s <em>Daily Star<\/em> has dished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/INFphoto_836683.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14607\" title=\"Russell Crowe\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/INFphoto_836683-658x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/INFphoto_1080617.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13952\" title=\"Beyonce Knowles\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/INFphoto_1080617-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oscar winner Robert Downey, Jr. had been pitted for the lead role, but the &#8220;Gladiator&#8221; star has apparently replaced him. Crowe will reportedly play an aging alcoholic musician who mentors and falls in love with a talented young star, portrayed by the &#8220;Single Ladies&#8221; singer. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-92225\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nick Cassavettes has been tapped to helm the movie musical, which is rumored to feature <em>Mad Men&#8217;s<\/em> Jon Hamm and songbirds Alicia Keys and Rihanna.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Star Is Born<\/em> first struck box office gold in the 1930s and has  been reworked twice since its debut: first with Judy Garland and James Mason in 1957 and then with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson taking the leads in 1976.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bIwbnHD-T2YqtUiX_MptcpcHEQU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bIwbnHD-T2YqtUiX_MptcpcHEQU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bIwbnHD-T2YqtUiX_MptcpcHEQU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bIwbnHD-T2YqtUiX_MptcpcHEQU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Crowe is set to share the screen with singing star Beyonce in a forthcoming remake of the classic motion picture A Star Is Born, London&#8217;s Daily Star has dished. Oscar winner Robert Downey, Jr. had been pitted for the lead role, but the &#8220;Gladiator&#8221; star has apparently replaced him. Crowe will reportedly play an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}