Russell Brand has confirmed he is to star in a remake of Dudley Moore’s classic movie Arthur.
“I’m remaking Arthur!” an excited Brand told MTV. “I’m going to make him out of flesh I find on the subway.”
The actor says they are still casting for the other main roles for the remake, which will be directed by Jason Winer, a key figure behind US TV’s Modern Family.
“We’re casting at the moment,” said Brand, promising some exciting news.
He quipped that Liza Minnelli – who played opposite Arthur in the original movie – will reprise the role.
“She is playing the love interest,” Brand joked of the actress, now 63.
“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. That’s my motto. Liza worked in the first film, she will work in this and any subsequent films.”
Brand also says the music – which featured Burt Bacharach-penned tunes – will also be a key link to the original.
“I think people will cover those songs from the original,” Brand told MTV.
The original movie centered on a boozy playboy who is set to inherit a fortune if he marries an heiress his family thinks will make something out of him. However, he falls in love with a working-class woman and turns to his valet for help when his family makes him choose between money and love.
Actress Brooke Shields has revealed that Michael Jackson thought he was dying and that she wasn’t surprised by the King of Pop’s death.
The former Suddenly Susan star, 44, made her comments in a US magazine.
She said: “He [Jackson] thought he was dying already.”
And while she was devastated by her famous friend’s death last June, Shields said that she was not surprised.
She said: “They were killing him – the people and the press.”
The Lipstick Jungle star also spoke out in defence of Jackson who faced child-sex abuse charges and a high-profile trial in 2005.
The mum-of-two said that she never believed the music legend was a child molester and that she warned him that his sleepovers with young boys would be misunderstood, telling him: “Michael, the world’s not going to get it.”
The former child star, who started modelling at the age of 11 months, also revealed that she doesn’t want her two daughters – Rowan, six, and Grier, three – to go into showbiz.
She said: “It’s a high like you can’t imagine… But, no, I don’t want them involved. Every day you’re told what you are not – you’re not short enough, you’re not thin enough, you’re not pretty enough.
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