In what's bound to be today's music-blogosphere go-to punchline, Universal Pictures has announced plans to make a
Milli Vanilli biopic, to be directed by
Catch Me If You Can screenwriter
Jeff Nathanson. Frankly, we're surprised nobody thought of this sooner: While the rain-blaming duo never recovered from that 1990 lip-synching scandal, their showbiz career was full of strange twists and turns, eventually ending with the suicide of Rob Pilatus (who, as
Metroville notes, is misidentified in the
Variety announcement). And thanks to German producer Frank Farian, their songs still have at least a semblance of a following—the out-of-print
Girl You Know It's True goes for as high as $48 used on Amazon. So snicker all you want, but this thing could be great—like
Walk The Line, but with more diamond-encrusted vests.
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