The Funeral, The Lawsuits... And Now The TV Movie! Pavarotti's Neverending Mess

Luciano Pavarotti's life will become a TV movie: the production company led by film director Gabriele Muccino (he directed among other things the Will Smith vehicle The Pursuit Of Happyness) has bought the rights of an Italian Pavarotti bio that tastefully came out like five days after the great tenor's death.

The search is on for the actor who'll play Big Luciano.

OC votes for Dom De Luise.

Comments

[Don Pasqualino]

I'd cast Jane Eaglen in a trouser role, fake beard, Hermes scarf

[deadtenors]

To be frank, I have my suspicions that this is yet another Will Smith vehicle. Might work. Smith's son could play Pav as a kid. But there are so many other possibilities. It all depends on which facet of the man one wishes to explore.

How about this gentleman, charming the ladies?
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And to play one of the women in his life - you decide which one:

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[Juliana gondek]

Of course, Dom and Luciano were great personal friends. I was covering the role of Rosalinde in Fledermaus at the Met when Dom was playing Frosch. He and Luciano hatched a scheme together and sprang it on the entire Met family - performers, administration, audience. One night, apparently without telling anyone, they decided that Luciano would come out in Dom's place for the traditional lengthy pantomime at the beginning of Act III. The audience shrieked in delight, the conductor (Rudel?)
was doubled over, and the show came to a halt until everyone could compose themselves. Good times....