And this guy said ‘Ah, the new one’s pretty good.’ “And I became aware that there are people out there in the film business who have read not just one script for Heart-Shaped Box, but three or four. “I was out in Hollywood a year ago and I was talking with someone and he said ‘What did you think of the latest version of the Heart-Shaped Box script?’ And I said ‘I’ve never seen a Heart-Shaped Box script.’ I’ve heard that there are such things but I’ve never been allowed to read one. His body itself is as big as his larger-than-life stage presence.” As for the film actually happening, Hill revealed that Warner Bros still own the rights, but he’s yet to see a script. “And Russell Crowe is big – he has a kind of physical immensity to him which is sort of interesting because I always saw Jude as a big man. And I think that he can play anger well – he can rage with the best of them – and Jude is a very angry man. “But I do think that Russell Crowe knows how to hold a guitar. “I try not to say this person or that person should play the part, because until there is a movie, I want the reader to have the freedom to cast the movie in their own mind” he explained. The book revolves around rock star Judas Coyne, who becomes haunted by ghosts from his past when he buys a dead man’s suit, and Hill believes the Gladiator star would be perfect in the role.
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