Katie Holmes will be playing Victoria Beckham in the new biopic on David Beckham’s life. The people over at hollywoodnew.com give us this:
Katie Holmes is tipped to play celebrity pal Victoria Beckham in a new biopic of soccer superstar David Beckham. Holmes and her fiancé Tom Cruise are close friends with the British pair, but while movie bosses were keen to cast the Batman Begins star, Cruise will not be playing Beckham because of their “marked physical differences.” An insider says, “Tom has a brilliant grasp of what the public want to see and thought David’s story was wonderful.
“A football star emerges from humble origins, there’s drama within the matches and romance in his love affair with Victoria at the height of her pop-star fame. “At the time Tom was seeing quite a lot of David and Victoria. The quartet are very close friends and the Beckhams would only be happy about their story being used if Tom and Katie were involved.”
I like to imagine the conversation between these four celebrities. “Tom? Have you read that new Dianetics book? “Why no David I haven’t” “We’re so wonderful as a couple, don’t you think Tom?” “Yes Victoria, perfect right down to your noses” “Well then why don’t you make a movie about us” “Sure David, I could cast my Katie as your Victoria” “Yes that works, just put her on a diet of laxatives and scientology prayer. Really we wouldn’t do a film if you two weren’t involved” “Katie you’re drooling” “Oh don’t mind her she’s just so happy about life”. Well it may have gone slightly different.
Weird famous people aside the story of David Beckham although a little soon doesn’t strike me as the worst idea in the world, it seems to be much more of a movie of the week than a blockbuster hit but still, not the worst idea.
I like Katie Holmes, she is a decent actress and a beautiful girl who has made some very bad choices lately.
But Katie is under extreme scrutiny by everyone right now and playing a bratty British pop star will do nothing but push harder on her nosedive of a career. Also for her to look like V. Beckham she would have to lose a lot of weight (Holmes is not a big girl, but Mrs. Beckham is about 30 lbs underweight). Plus all kidding aside she is quite unexpressive these days and I wonder if after showing the world a frozen smile for the last year she is actually up to the task of acting, often if you don’t use it you do lose it.
Maybe Tom loves Katie, perhaps they do have a romantic love story that nobody can see but them (and I’m up for seeing a movie about that one day, especially if it was from their housekeeper’s perspective). But Cruise getting Holmes play a role that she will almost certainly be criticized for just because without her the Beckham’s wouldn’t make a movie is a very unloving act.
I wonder if it this will make it into the TomCat movie.
DAIVD IS PAST HIS PRIME AMERICANS COULD GIVE A RATS ASS ABOUT SOCCER IT IS A FEMALE SPORT OVER HERE AND I DONT THINK ANAREXIA SPICE WOULD NOT COME TO TERMS AND SEEING THE FEMALE SOCCER TEAM BEAT THE SHIT OUTTA CHINA FOR THE THIRD TIME ANYWAY SOCCER IS WORLDWIDE EVERY WHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD BUT THE BALL STOPS THERE WHEN IT HITS AMERICA MEN LOVE CONTACT SPORTS YOU KNOW WHY IT MAKES US FEEL LIKE MEN NOT LIKE LITTLE HOMOSEXUALS RUNNING AROUND IN SPANDEX TRYING TO KICK A BALL IN THE GOAL.AND FAR AS THE MONEY GOES IT SHOULD GO TO THE KATRINA RELIEF FOUNDATION RATHER THEN TO A PLAYER WHO IS OUT DATED GOT DAMN BRITS
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I wouldn’t go to see a movie about David and Victoria Beckham. But if I did, I wouldn’t go if Katie Holmes was in it.
She looks like someone who has the IQ of a dead fish. And she’s about as attractive.
Mind you, Victoria Beckham hardly sets the world alight with her looks.
Free Katie!!!!!!
And Posh Spice is the town bike.
Oh, and Sporty Spice has a much better voice. Who cares about Posh? David Beckham is awesome though.
Uuuuummmmm….no. She was hot as a Spice Girl, but she fell off the wagon now. Who gives a shit about her? Her hubby, on the other hand…..what a piece of ass!
Meli, I must be the only one who hated her turn in Pieces of April. I thought she was bland and boring at best and the role was supposed to be about some lost soul/rebel type. She uttered one “Open the fucking door!” and suddenly she was perfectly cast?! Sorry, I have to disagree with you on this. She was a lot better in Dawson’s Creek and First Daugher than PofA. (Wait… I just realised PofA could stand for Pieces of Ass and now all of the guys are going to be talking about how they wish they had a piece of Katie’s skinny ass. D-oh! Sorry, everyone!)
I have serious problems with this movie:
1. Who the fuck cares about the Beckham brand over here besides the pappies and online gossips?
2. Victoria is hideous looking and has a black hole from what I can tell. Souless. Completely souless.
3. He’s a dimwit of the highest order when it comes to IQ, but he’s smart enough to have as many lovers behind her back as he can while he can. Bend it, Beckham!
4. TomKat = gross. Beckhams = wastes of oxygen.
5. Katie hasn’t spoken with an English accent before, has she? Can you imagine how badly it will sound if she tries and fails? (OK, I’m starting to see some unintentional comedic moments of brilliance coming down the pike here, kids.)
5. Who could possibly be man pretty enough to portray David? Ashton Kutcher???? Please. *rolls eyes*
6. Tom knows what we really want? What we really, really want? (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
7. Tom thinks these brainless twits have a story to tell the world, with, you know, like, a plot and everything?!?!
8. Katie has too much class and polish to pull of cootch-shooting sluttiness that is Vicki “Look at my knickies!!” Beckham.
9. When was the last time Tom made a movie he didn’t want to be in front of the camera for, The Others? And that’s only because he was divorcing Nicole while she making it!
Blech. This idea is ridiculous from start to finish as far as I’m converned.
Personally I think Katie Holmes is a horrible actress. The only thing I thought she was okay in was Pieces of April. This idea doesn’t intrigue me in the least; however, to see Katie dressed up as Posh Spice – ahahahahahaha – that just MIGHT be worth it.
“Tom has a brilliant grasp of what the public want to see”
Interesting use of this phrase considering Tom has been flying off the cuff getting himself a bad reputation. Clearly not the actions of someone you would assume “knows what the public wants to see”
I agree with you Sharon, Kaite is a decent actress. But a David and Victoria movie? Whos the idoit who came up with that idea David has an IQ of -10 and Victoria has done nothing and is moreless a has been since the Spicegirls split a 100 years ago.
All I’ve got is…WHY?
This is an awful, terrible, silly, worthless idea!! It’s gonna suck big time! I can come up with 1 000 ideas all better than this so called idea!!! :-/
I would rather eat my own worm infested faesces than watch a film about those sickening, tacky, capitalism-gone-mad, media-whore, pathetic, souless, zombie, witless fools!
Yes I am jealous, but I also despise them on moral and ethical grounds.
Excellent point Sharon. I don’t think this is the best move for Holmes at the moment. I completely agree that she has talent but I’m fearful of the Kidman effect (no decent jobs while with Tom – academy award after Tom) taking it’s hold on Katie and this seems to be happening. It will be interesting to see who eventually gets cast as Beckham. I would be VERY surprised if they managed to find someone established to fill this role. I just don’t see this as an important story to be told. At least not yet.