RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!! Could be one of the coolest films ever!

Hey folks, Harry here with a rundown on a project that Sean Daniels and Jim Jacks have going on over at Alpaville with Paramount that would be perhaps one of the coolest films around. RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!

Personally, this is one of those quirky cool projects that I'd love to see Tim Burton do. From the Logline that is going out to screenwriters right now, they want to detail the film from Ripley's earlies sports days for the New York Globe at the age of 25 through to his death at the age of 55. The film would follow him in his world wide quest through the 30s and 40s for the strange and unusual be it animal, vegetable, mineral or just plain wacky human behavior.

Ripley was an artist and one of the most entertaining cultural antropologists to have ever lived. Robert Leroy Ripley. Personally, I'd love to see Johnny Depp do this just because I love him doing strange and unusual characters... at the same time I can imagine Sam Raimi doing this with Bruce Campbell.... or the Coen Brothers doing this. God I love Ripley's Believe it or Not stories. W. R. Hearst financed his column and his travels.... He was the founder of the first world wide radio broadcast in 1934! He did radio broadcasts from underwater to snake pits to hot air balloons... and he became the most popular man in the world. Literally the most popular man in the world. He created a legacy that has continued to live, a personality that has infected millions with a curiousity about the strange and unusual. A film based upon that life, that sort of media fame in that era.... It could be a fascinating film. Can you imagine though if Charlie Kaufman wrote the screenplay, if Spike Jonze directed it... and if Ed Norton played Ripley? OH MAN! I'd love that!

Anyway, Alphaville has it, and they're looking for writers, hopefully this project will be as great as any story about the life of Ripley should!