Gossip: Madonna’s new movie
Madonna has landed a new film role – playing a gunslinging 1920s cowgirl for whom she’s a dead ringer.
The singer will play silent movie star Texas Guinan in Martin Scorsese big-screen musical Hello Sucker! The tale is based on the life of legendary bareback horserider Guinan who appeared in Hollywood Westerns.
Texas-born blonde Guinan also became a rebel nightclub host who openly flouted anti-booze Prohibition laws and kick-started her stage shows with the hellraising catchphrase Hello Sucker!
The film is Madge’s chance to get even with critics who slated her parts in Eighties films Shanghai Surprise and Desperately Seeking Susan then 2002?s Swept Away, directed by hubby Guy Ritchie.
Madge will co-produce it with Goodfellas director Scorsese and also write the music.
It will be shot next year and the soundtrack will be the Material Girl’s next album, with the first single a cover of 1920s hit There’ll Be Some Changes Made.
The movie will be directed by Jeremy Scott who masterminded Madge’s anti-war video for her hit American Life.
Madonna idolises feisty Guinan – star of The Hellcat, The She Wolf, The Gun Woman and Little Miss Deputy – and will love stepping into her stirrups.
An industry insider said: “This project is really personal for Madonna as she worships Guinan. Critical acclaim in movies is also the one thing that has eluded her but this is a special film with big names involved. “Madonna has already recorded an album’s worth of songs for it and is determined to make it work“.
The film arm of her production company Maverick bought the rights to the film in 2001 and planned a stage show but later hit on the movie idea. Madge has been laying down tracks for it since last year.
Courtney Love was cast as Guinan and even wrote some songs but has been axed over her recent drug troubles. So the Queen Of Pop – now two weeks into her Re-Invention World Tour – is reinvent herself as the Queen Of Trot.
Source: The Sun, today’s edition