By Stefan Doyno
What's crazier than Clint Eastwood directing a musical? Well, not much – except if in that same film, Leonardo DiCaprio co-starred opposite Beyonce. That would really get people talking.
Well, it might be happening. Eastwood and DiCaprio got along so well on the set of J. Edgar, the upcoming biopic of infamous FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, that DiCaprio is in discussions to join Eastwood’s remake of the musical A Star Is Born. Eastwood and DiCaprio are tremendously talented and Beyonce has since proven her acting chops with Dreamgirls and Cadillac Records, so maybe this will turn out to be really interesting.
Here are some other director-musician superstar pairings we'd like to see happen.
Martin Scorsese and Eminem
One word comes to mind: violence. These two could make a killing (pun intended) at the box office.
With Eminem's talent in both the music and acting fields (he was amazing in 8 Mile) and Scorsese's brutal direction, these two would definitely make an action-packed Oscar winner.
Steven Speilberg and Justin Bieber
Hello, an E.T. remake, anybody? Ok, maybe not, but there is something about this team that kind of screams blockbuster. All we need is an alien and we're good to go.
David Lynch and Lady Gaga
Just imagine what these two could throw together. On second thought, don’t even try; whatever it would be is probably unimaginable. Lynch and Gaga's strange and intriguing imaginations could create something beyond comprehension and truly mind-blowing. Everyone would go to see it … and then spend three days trying to understand it.
In an interview published this morning in the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper, badass cowboy/cop actor and Oscar-hoarding director Clint Eastwood indicated that fellow filmmaker Spike Lee should just "shut his face" when it comes to criticism of Clint's "Flags of Our Fathers."