It looks like Hillary Swank has scored the lead in an upcoming Amelia Earhart biopic. We were made aware of this news, thanks to the professionals at Variety:
Hilary Swank is set to play aviatrix Amelia Earhart in “Amelia,” a biopic that will be directed by Mira Nair. Ron Bass wrote the script. Swank will play Earhart in the formative stages of her career. George Putnam, a publisher and publicist, was engaged by society denizen Amy Guest to set up a daring nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. When Guest was talked out of trying to become the first woman to make the trip, she dispatched Putnam to find a female pilot, and to turn the flight into a media event.
Amelia Earhart is a legendary figure, and her story is one that lends itself to film very well. Amelia was snatched away, whist attempting to circumnavigate the globe. To this day people still spin tales about what really happened to her plane. The mysterious disappearance of this historic figure secured her a place as legend till the end of time.
I think swank is a great casting for this. When I look at pictures of Erhart I can totally see Swank portraying her. I will not say the two look like twins, but it is a pretty good match, that is for certain. The “look” is important to me and I am ready to see Swank in some pilot goggles.
Filming for Amelia is set to begin in April and we will be sure to keep you abreast of the progress!
International Friends: What do you think really happened to Amelia? My guess is that she stumbled up the airspace of Dinosaur Island, and was taken out by a gaggle of beefy Pterodactyls!
think she sunk to the bottom and died with her navigator.
im related to her to thats mean
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Examples of courage, that’s what the world needs. Amelia Earhart was the first brave woman to do what many of us would have never thought doing.
Hillary goes after her as the second brave one to portrait her heroism and hopefully to teach others who only know criticizing to respect the accomplishment she did and what they would never ever do. I was on set too and I saw the enthusiasm she put on it.
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Thank you very much for sharing your blog with us Kelly!
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I am directly related to Amelia Earhart. I have our family tree bound book which is extremely interesting. It has all of her/our history and family tree information and shows all of our relatives and other interesting facts.
I have been to numerous of the museums displaying a lot of her things and have come across some very interesting things for those who are fans of her.
My blog is America As Seen By Kelly.blogspot.com, I have written a few articles about her, but have a lot of other pictures and informtion that I have not included in my blog.
Good luck to Hillary Swank, I’m sure she will make our family proud and portray her well. We are all certainly proud of her and her accomplishes.
After reading some of the comments, I will pass along my own. I had the opportunity to be on set with Hilary Swank in the filming of “Amelia”, and I will tell you that she is an extremely nice person.
How does the movie end? Do you know? Crashed and sank,etc.
Linn Lewis
I think she and her co-pilot were captured by the Japanese who thought she was on a spying mission…..or something like that.
She got abducted by aliens. Duh. :)
Hillary Swank is the most annoying actress ever. I’m not sure why I feel that way, that’s just the way it is.
She’s even worse than Jodie Foster.
As for what happened to Earhart, most likely she saw a bird, panicked, and crashed into the ocean.
What do you expect when you let a woman drive??
Should we predict another Oscar
I think she landed on the same island as Hoffa.