Home Cool News Coaxial Reviews Zone Chat Contact Us Sign in

A New Column... 'That Can't Be True!' -- Kevin Costner to do a Fidel Castro musical'!'

Hey folks, Harry here... This will not be a regular column, but as the need arises... There are rumors and stories that are near impossible to confirm until they get announced or are discarded quietly from the tables of development... This has to be one of the most wondrously insane rumored concepts I've ever read... Here ya go...

hi harry,

don't know if there's some flesh on this bone... rumours have it that kevin costner is about ot make a musical-movie about... FIDEL CASTRO!

you've heard anything about it?! only rumour? source is reliable... but still can't believe it. is he trying to jump on the moulin-rouge- chicago-musical-wave? fair enough! but with fidel castro? com'on?!

cheers

rené

Ok... Let's take a look at it. Kevin Costner is friends with Oliver Stone, Ollie has just done that CASTRO documentary COMMANDANTE which the Reic... Right seemed to bully out of existence. However, just about anyone and everyone would admit that Fidel Castro's story has all the earmarks of an epic film... up Costner's alley.

Afterall... Coster does love baseball (BULL DURHAM, FIELD OF DREAMS, FOR LOVE OF THE GAME) and has dealt with the very Castro-esque with both JFK and THIRTEEN DAYS. Cuba is a wonderful setting for a musical - especially the Cuba of Castro's youth, through to today. Fidel's story has that epic sort of grandeur that made EVITA such a great subject for Musical Drama. It could also be one of the most tasteless musicals of all time.

NOW - Would Costner direct this alleged project? Would Oliver Stone be involved somehow? Would Costner be crazy enough to try and play Fidel... or would they cast someone else completely wrong for the part like Antonio Banderas? Who could play the musical Castro if it were to exist? -- Alfred Molina? Luis Guzman? (LOL) Benicio Del Toro? Would Kennedy and Krushchev sing? What about Che?

The source "rené" is actually someone legitimate to listen to, in a position to hear very real rumors, especially about THIS project... Let's see what we can find out? As for my tie to Castro? My grandfather coached military baseball teams that played against Castro when he was a player on Cuba's team... Apparently, my grandfather's team kicked their ass! But that could be old family jingoism...

AddThis Social Bookmark Button
Click for previous story Talk Back More on this story Click for next story

User login

Reader Talkback

FIRST!!!!!!
by derwent
Sep 19th, 2003
08:22:34 AM
mannnn...FUCK cuba
by Rcamacho2278
Sep 19th, 2003
08:23:19 AM
"Manolo, choot that piece of chit."
by Cash Bailey
Sep 19th, 2003
08:32:37 AM
And the Kevin Costner career suicide train keeps on 'a rollin'!
by manwiththedogs
Sep 19th, 2003
08:36:30 AM
Costner
by Billy Liar
Sep 19th, 2003
08:49:04 AM
I'd hardly call Open Range "career suicide." It's doing quite n
by Lance Rock
Sep 19th, 2003
08:55:38 AM
6 Degrees of Harry Knowles
by jimmychitwood
Sep 19th, 2003
09:04:16 AM
"It's Springtime for Hitler, In Germany"
by nantra
Sep 19th, 2003
09:09:54 AM
Fidel Castro's story has all the makings of an epic film?
by vikingkitty
Sep 19th, 2003
09:25:51 AM
come on Harry
by raja
Sep 19th, 2003
09:38:03 AM
Gilbert Gottfried for Fidel!
by Sith Witch
Sep 19th, 2003
10:09:22 AM
Have any of you BEEN to Cuba?
by Mr Funktastic
Sep 19th, 2003
10:09:46 AM
Yep. Cuba's so cool, they don't even allow citizens to own cars
by vikingkitty
Sep 19th, 2003
10:24:45 AM
Sounds like the worst movie involving Castro since Red Zone Cuba
by Osmosis Jones
Sep 19th, 2003
10:54:57 AM
"Fidel of Dreams"
by Alan_Thicke
Sep 19th, 2003
11:13:28 AM
This Liberal Thinks It's Disgusting...
by Rebeck
Sep 19th, 2003
11:15:30 AM
Every costner movie is 4 hours long and goes nowhere...
by REMcycle
Sep 19th, 2003
11:18:47 AM
This Liberal Thinks It's Disgusting...
by Rebeck
Sep 19th, 2003
11:24:21 AM
It must be said...
by IFartOnYourGrave
Sep 19th, 2003
11:27:12 AM
Jerry Orbach was born to play this role.
by Fred
Sep 19th, 2003
11:42:11 AM
You gotta love moralistic sermonizing from a guy whose e-mail ad
by mortsleam
Sep 19th, 2003
11:43:15 AM
A Costner Movie About This New Column? "Bullshit Durham"
by hipcheck13
Sep 19th, 2003
11:46:46 AM
Reicht?
by wato
Sep 19th, 2003
11:59:35 AM
I'll wait to see if it's true...
by the G-man
Sep 19th, 2003
12:10:44 PM
You have GOT to be fucking kidding! (or, Kevin Costner's choo-ch
by WarDog
Sep 19th, 2003
12:13:02 PM
"How to Succeed at being a Dictator Without Really Trying" with
by Big Bad Clone
Sep 19th, 2003
12:19:37 PM
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
by labowski
Sep 19th, 2003
01:04:49 PM
In response to : Rcamacho2278
by Lumin Kadare
Sep 19th, 2003
01:43:03 PM
the real cuba
by Rictus77
Sep 19th, 2003
01:50:43 PM
Nice one, Rictus77
by Lumin Kadare
Sep 19th, 2003
02:03:55 PM
Yep. Kids can play in the streets at night.
by vikingkitty
Sep 19th, 2003
02:05:35 PM
In response to: vikingkitty
by Lumin Kadare
Sep 19th, 2003
02:14:30 PM
Is it supposed to be our fault?
by exyankee
Sep 19th, 2003
02:15:51 PM
Is it supposed to be our fault
by exyankee
Sep 19th, 2003
02:17:33 PM
It isn't America's fault.
by Lumin Kadare
Sep 19th, 2003
02:22:23 PM
Cuban healthcare has wasted away since the collapse of the Sovie
by vikingkitty
Sep 19th, 2003
02:24:24 PM
Cuban Healthcare
by LewisWetzel
Sep 19th, 2003
02:38:09 PM
Make up your mind Libs.
by labowski
Sep 19th, 2003
03:03:21 PM
cuba...
by Rictus77
Sep 19th, 2003
03:07:14 PM

by cmenchu
Sep 19th, 2003
03:08:21 PM
Costner's "Fidel Project"
by cmenchu
Sep 19th, 2003
03:12:18 PM
This cannot be real.
by Manaqua
Sep 19th, 2003
03:15:06 PM
Wouldn't be the first time.............
by Blok Narpin
Sep 19th, 2003
03:24:36 PM
Infant Mortality Rates
by FentonCrisp
Sep 19th, 2003
03:29:18 PM
Rictus, Wake Up - You're Dreaming
by Rebeck
Sep 19th, 2003
05:21:10 PM
I think they should make "Castro: The Movie" with Hulk Hogan as
by mbaker
Sep 19th, 2003
05:35:21 PM
escaping cuba
by Rictus77
Sep 19th, 2003
05:35:37 PM
...
by Rictus77
Sep 19th, 2003
05:57:37 PM
Costner needs to fire his agent
by super Cucaracha
Sep 19th, 2003
06:02:05 PM
and now ladies and gentlemen...we have motherfuckers defending C
by super Cucaracha
Sep 19th, 2003
06:11:15 PM
To all the Cuba/Castro bashers
by mtoast
Sep 19th, 2003
06:16:59 PM
Oh! Oh! I hope they call it... "Fidel On the Roof!"
by Cinemajerk
Sep 19th, 2003
06:36:46 PM
Oh! Oh! I hope they call it... "Fidel On the Roof!"
by Cinemajerk
Sep 19th, 2003
06:38:28 PM
Couple of things....
by Daryl van Horn
Sep 19th, 2003
06:57:23 PM
OLD NEWS
by Mosquito March
Sep 19th, 2003
07:22:12 PM
relevant link
by mtoast
Sep 19th, 2003
07:32:12 PM
Is anyone else awestruck by the irony of GreatOne decrying the t
by Rain_Dog
Sep 19th, 2003
07:53:38 PM
GreatOne, you're wrong about blacks in Cuba
by mtoast
Sep 19th, 2003
08:16:09 PM
kevin costner's endless supply of money
by MiltonWaddams
Sep 19th, 2003
08:19:05 PM
Cuba
by A.Stanton
Sep 19th, 2003
08:38:05 PM
All you pinko liberals...
by raoulkduke
Sep 19th, 2003
09:31:45 PM
Cro-Magnons here are actually still using the term 'pinko'.
by Lumin Kadare
Sep 20th, 2003
12:24:53 AM
Sprintime for Dubya and Hollywood
by Lenny*Bruce
Sep 20th, 2003
09:16:57 AM
What was that I said about about ad hominem attacks?
by Rain_Dog
Sep 20th, 2003
07:25:55 PM
You've never posted at superherohype.com using the handle Mindwo
by Rain_Dog
Sep 20th, 2003
07:32:58 PM
Ah, fuck it, one more thing . . .
by Rain_Dog
Sep 20th, 2003
07:54:50 PM
Cuba/Musical
by Weyland-Yutani
Sep 20th, 2003
08:08:04 PM
Wrong
by A.Stanton
Sep 20th, 2003
10:53:56 PM
Cannibal_Nun
by Rain_Dog
Sep 21st, 2003
12:55:27 AM
Sci-fi nerds revolt!
by OsamaBinBlofeld
Sep 21st, 2003
01:18:33 AM
I'll try and explain this one more time, GreatOne . . .
by Rain_Dog
Sep 21st, 2003
01:24:22 AM
I know republicians that read Marx...
by OsamaBinBlofeld
Sep 21st, 2003
01:24:55 AM
There has never been a capitalist country.
by JackieJokeman
Sep 21st, 2003
01:44:21 PM
I love the argument, "There has never been a really communist co
by vikingkitty
Sep 22nd, 2003
05:57:40 AM
Cannibal Nun
by DocPazuzu
Sep 22nd, 2003
07:03:35 AM
why am i not surprised...
by Octaveaeon
Sep 22nd, 2003
11:03:59 AM
and as far as cuba is concerned...
by Octaveaeon
Sep 22nd, 2003
12:17:05 PM
and on cuba...
by Octaveaeon
Sep 22nd, 2003
12:20:05 PM
cuba is better than u think
by BIGPOTATOGIRL
Sep 22nd, 2003
08:09:21 PM
Harry to Bushers: Go Fuck Yourselves
by Jeff Fries III
Sep 23rd, 2003
04:15:42 AM
Baz Luhrmann is crying in his beer as we speak
by SpeakersCorner
Sep 23rd, 2003
05:53:51 AM
What about a Hitler musical?
by Lost Skeleton
Sep 24th, 2003
02:37:40 PM

Quick Talkback

Please login to post talkback.