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Harold Ramis Biopic Updated:
Thursday 12th June 2003: Harold Ramis Biopic Update:
Moviehole reports
today that Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks with Director
Harold Ramis [Animal House, Analyze This] to star in
a movie based on Ramis's own life as a psych attendant.
Whether
he’s acting, writing or directing Harold Ramis
always seems to have his finger on the pulse. Ok, so
“Analyze That” was about as enjoyable as sniffing
three week old socks, but before that he did some incredible
flicks, notably “Ghostbusters”, “Groundhog
Day”, “Vacation” and “Caddyshack”-
and his next project sounds like a winner too. Only
this time it’ll be a movie based on his own life
in fact, when he worked in an industry about as far
removed from Hollywood as possible.
The
movie will in fact be based on Ramis’s own post-school
days working in a psychiatric hospital. And as we speak,
the director is talking to famed youngster Jake Gyllenhaal
about playing the lead.
Ramis
kicked off his illustrious career with the Chicago-based
Second City troupe in the late '60s and early '70s.
At the time, he was also working for Playboy magazine
as an associate editor.
Despite
the Chicago-based fringe benefits, he moved to New York
as a writer and performer of The National Lampoon Show
in 1974. And two years later joined “SCTV”,
and ultimately wrote “Animal House”.
But
before all that, he did 7 months in a locked psych ward.
"There's nothing an actor can do that will surprise
or intimidate me, having wrestled people to the ground
preventing their suicide, cleaning their excrement off
the walls, mopping blood off the floor. I can be impressed,
but I'm not intimidated." Ramis said in a recent
interview.
Ramis
is believed to be very keen on locking down Gyllenhaal
[Donnie Darko, The Good Girl] to lead the film. First
up however Gyllenhaal – happy with his work on
the London Stage last year when he co-starred with Hayden
Christensen and Anna Paquin in “This is our Youth”
– is considering doing a new stage version of “Romeo
and Juliet”. Thanks to Clint!
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