Merrick here...
THIS piece at Vulture says that Bill Murray will star as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a big-screen iteration of HYDE PARK ON THE HUDSON. The picture will be scripted by Richard Nelson, who will adapt his own BBC Radio Play of the same name.
The tale...
...recounts the quasi-incestuous love affair between the president and his distant cousin, Margaret Stuckley, and takes place on the June 1939 weekend that the British King and Queen visited Roosevelt at his upstate New York cottage, in the first-ever visit to America by a member of the United Kingdom monarchy.
Wow - we're a long way from MEATBALLS.
HYDE PARK ON THE HUDSON will be directed by Roger Michell, who also helmed the J.J. Abrams produced MORNING GLORY last year - which I've (frustratingly) yet to see, although I've heard consistently great things about it.
Never really thought about it (why would I?), but Murray (left) does look a bit like FDR (right).
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