Russell Crowe Playing Bill Hicks

Russell Crowe could be stepping behind the mic stand as Comedian Bill Hicks in a upcoming biopic.  The Oscar winner spoke with the Sydney Morning Herald
about his the film and the postponement of Ridley Scott’s ‘Nottingham’.

“I have another project based on the life of comedian Bill Hicks, which is going from treatment to draft stage with Kiwi writer Mark Staufer,” Crowe told the paper.

Hick was a controversial American comedian who battled drug and alcohol abuse before dying from prostate cancer at the age of 32.

‘Nottingham’, Crowe’s next film, begins filming in March of next year.