Ryan Gosling, star of The Place Beyond the Pines, self-generated retirement reports, and our fantasies, is now headlining an unfortunately timed casting rumor circulating Hollywood. Per a report in The Daily Mail, Gosling “has been approached” to play South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius—who fatally shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp this past Valentine’s Day—in an upcoming film. A Hollywood “mole” tells the British paper that several scripts on the subject are already being developed. “You’ve got one of the world’s most famous sportsmen under arrest and a beautiful young woman who meets a violent death . . . Scripts began doing the rounds within days of the scandal breaking.” The Mail also notes that Charlize Theron, who is from South Africa, “is tipped to portray” Steenkamp.
It seems unlikely that this potential project will take shape as reported—if not because of Gosling’s self-imposed acting sabbatical, then because the movie seems entirely “too soon.” Hollywood has only just publicly entered the TV-documentary stage of milking this tragic story for ratings.
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I wish it was an April Fools' joke.