EXCLUSIVE: Swank's Earhart biopic gets a director and writer
Hilary Swank's quest for a third Oscar gathers pace with the help of underrated helmer Phillip Noyce and Ron Bass.
Hilary Swank has made some pretty bad career choices since picking up her second Oscar for Million Dollar Baby. Matt's post here pretty much mirrors my own opinion on Hilary. After reading the initial story, I felt that her role in the upcoming biopic of famous female aviator Amelia Earhart could possibly put her career back on track. It's just the sort of part that she excels in. Now I'm almost certain it'll be a return to form due to the following reasons: the project is being scripted by Ron Bass (Rain Man, Dangerous Minds) and Phillip Noyce (Dead Calm, Patriot Games) - someone who doesn't get the recognition he deserves, if you ask me - will direct the film. Earhart is perhaps most famous for mysteriously disappearing during a flight across the Pacific Ocean in 1937. She was declared dead two years later though her body was never found. Earhart's fate is still debated today with many disappearance theories touted. It will be interesting to see if Noyce and Bass end the movie ambiguously or shoot for a definitive answer on what happened to Earhart during her final flight.