Luhrmann Wants Jackman and Knowles for Movie Musical

Visionary filmmaker Baz Luhrmann reveals to Vogue magazine that he is very eager to re-team Beyonce Knowles and Hugh Jackman for a new movie musical after directing the two multi-talented stars for a medley of showtunes at the recent Academy Awards.

Knowles and Jackman gamely sang and danced through snazzy renditions of Lady Marmalade, All That Jazz and Somewhere Over The Rainbow in a performance medley last month staged by the Moulin Rouge! director.

Beyonce Knowles has already enjoyed major crossover success with her big screen roles as Etta James in 2008 biopic Cadillac Records and 2006 motion picture adaptation of Dreamgirls.

And the excited Luhrmann insists Knowles is destined to follow in the footsteps of Hollywood's greatest leading ladies. He told Vogue of his hopes to re-connect the pair, saying: "One can only pray. My mind is racing already... I'm sure that there is a dramatic cinematic life for her. It's been a long time since we've seen that kind of performer, like Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross, on the screen."

The Wolverine star admits he'd be up for the challenge: "Just watching how she processes everything, she's so fast... I just found myself going, 'Oh, my God, I want to do movies with this girl. I want to do a movie musical!'"

Jackman insists Knowles has the star quality to make it big in Hollywood too: "I have no doubt she'll win an Oscar one day. I can see the ambition in her to want to do that, to be in movies and really knock something out of the park. She's got it. Whatever it is, she's got it." The full story can be read at ContactMusic.com.

 

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