More Cowbell! Christopher Walken Set to Play Ozzy Osbourne

[WorthyStevens]

Exclusive: Christopher Walken to Play Ozzy Osbourne

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 6, 2006 — Hide the Bats! Christopher Walken has agreed to play the ultimate bad-boy rocker — Ozzy Osbourne..
Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil told ABC News Radio in an exclusive interview that the 63-year-old Oscar-winning actor will make a cameo appearance as Osbourne in "The Dirt," a movie based on the band's controversial 2001 autobiography.

"How funny is that going to be," Neil told ABC's Al Mancini at the Opening of Vince Neil Ink, the singer's new tattoo parlor in Las Vegas.
Walken's press representatives did not immediately return a call to ABCNEWS.com for comment.

"The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band" set new limits in tell-all confessionals. The 448-page tome catalogues the drug and alcohol abuse, nasty infighting, and sex parties of Neil and band mates Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx.

The film, announced in April, is now in preproduction and is expected to be released in 2008 by Paramount and MTV. It's been billed as a true-life version of "This Is Spinal Tap."

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Osbourne toured with Motley Crue and was friends with the band, and his antics, as recounted in the book, include snorting a line of live ants (while looking for a fix of cocaine) and taking LSD every day for a year "just to see what would happen."

Neil says that other stars are going to appear in the film as rock stars, including Val Kilmer as David Lee Roth. "We're doing big, giant cameos with those people," he says.

As for Neil and his Crue, they'll be played by unknowns.

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[Motown Marvel]

Ha!

 

[CConn]

Holy mother of God.

 

[Elisha Cuthbert]

Dude, i see oscar material in this. Just imagining Christopher Walken muttering things under his breath in a british accent has me foaming at the mouth.

 

[<(o_o)>]

Isn't Walken a bit old to play the younger chubby Ozzy of the 80's?

 

[bored]

Doubt not the Walken.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Vince Neil is just talking out of his ass. Or at least I hope he was because this sounds ridiculous.

 

[Lighthouse]

Christopher Walken looks nothing like Ozzy. He sounds nothing like Ozzy. I don't see anything resembling Ozzy in Christopher Walken. But you know what? I don't give a ****. Seeing Christopher Walken try to play Ozzy Osbourne brings such gleeful thoughts to my mind, I may actually see this movie despite my hatred for Motley Crue.

 

[Ben Urich]

Awesome.

 

[Warhammer]

Christopher Walken is gold in anything he plays.

 

[Socrates]

Isn't Walken a bit old to play the younger chubby Ozzy of the 80's?

As if that matters. I mean, this is Christopher Walken. And Ozzy Osbourne. Combined. Holy s**t.

 

[dogwonder78]

Sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit more than a movie.

 

[Max J Power]

Awesome.

 

[Artos]

VaL Klmr cN"T plY DviD Lee RTH!!! He"S AlrDY JIMM MorRISON!!!

Fanboys and their "you can only play one superhero" rule

 

[OtepApe]

Christopher Walken as Ozzy!!

*Brain implodes*

 

[Octoberist]

just. OUTRAGIOUS. Simply...a DELIGHT!

 

[batman7289]

mother of god

 

[BT18]

The answer to Vince Neils question about how funny it would be is probably

VERY - to people as blaringly dumb as Vince Neil
NOT PARTICULARLY - to people of average or above average intelligence

it's more of something that would distract from the flow of the movie considering the scene(s) involving Ozzy will probably take place in the 80's or at latest early 90's, when Ozzy was in his late 30's/early 40's, and Christopher Walken will be 64 minimum when this films.

In addition the fact that Walken isn't an actor that does voices, he just does HIS voice.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I think Vince was just wasted off his ass during the interview and the idiot believed his bologna.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

I think Vince was just wasted off his ass during the interview and the idiot believed his bologna.

I concur.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

I think Vince was just wasted off his ass during the interview and the idiot believed his bologna.

I concur.

 

[zer00]

My mind just crawled away and built a statue of awesome

 

[porchmonkey408]

Wait.

THE DIRT as a movie?

No freakin' way.

Get ready for an NC-17 rating.

By far one of my favorite books ever. In my top 3 easily. Imma re-read it now actually. *****es.

Walken is just going to play himself. Like he does ALL THE TIME now.

 

[Caliber]

Interesting casting, I'm not if this is good or bad.

 

[heypapajinx]

i hope everyone in Hollywood is willing to realize that this movie is going to set the bar for the pinnacle of every genre ever to come forever more.​