Madonna to play herself in a new movie?

“Law & Order: SVU” star Richard Belzer – who’s also a stand-up comic, gimlet-eyed political observer and dazzling conspiracy theorist – tells me he’s struck a deal with Madonna‘s production company, Maverick Films, to make a $5 million-plus satire of American popular culture.

“It will be a savage, hysterically funny sendup of American pop culture, covering everything from fast food to gay and straight politics to music to television movie trailers to Americans’ addiction to the Internet,” said Belzer, who plays Detective Munch on the hit NBC series.

“It will be a long and dark look at how we got to be the way we are – our mindless celebrity worship and penchant for turning everything into show business. The premise is that we will be an equal-opportunity eviscerator.”

Of course, you can’t lampoon pop culture without spotlighting Madonna, who has refused to leave the scene for more than two decades.

So Belzer, who plans to have a finished screenplay later this year, hopes to persuade Madge to play herself in the movie.

“I think she’s a very good actress,” he said (and, no doubt, a generous and visionary producer).

Source: Llyod Grove, New York Daily News