Hugh Jackman to play Bill Bixby in biopic of actor (The Incredible Hulk TV series)
Danny Tse
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I found this bit of interesting news on Bill Bixby thru wikipedia....
Anyone remember Bill Bixby in the early 70 TV series called "The Magician"? When I was a kid in Hong Kong, I was so hooked on that show and the white Corvette that was featured on it.
In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved. A year later, while promoting Van Helsing, he mentioned on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno that he wanted to make the movie soon. Leno showed a picture of Jackman and Bixby and pointed out the similarities in looks. Jackman would later reveal on Parkinson in the UK that he was drawn to Bixby's story because it was one of tremendous courage and determination against the odds. Many magazines in the UK including Total Film, Empire and SFX ran the story that Jackman would be playing Bixby. Nothing more was heard until summer 2009 when it was rumoured that Jackman's Seed Productions would add this to their upcoming projects with the possibility of Richard Donner directing or Jackman himself making his directing debut.
Parallel to a possible Hugh Jackman starring biopic Electric Entertainment and TNT announced in 2009 that it too would be making a TV movie based on Bixby's life. It will star possibly Noah Wyle or Tim Daly as Bixby.
Anyone remember Bill Bixby in the early 70 TV series called "The Magician"? When I was a kid in Hong Kong, I was so hooked on that show and the white Corvette that was featured on it.