Milli Vanilli: The Movie

Ooh, ooh, ooh I love you....

But I digress.

Just in Friday, February 16, 2007, as reported by Lawrence Van Gelder in his "Arts, Briefly" column in the New York Times, the news that a movie telling the tale of the rise, crash and burn of Milli Vanilli has just been greenlighted.

Well, at least the screenplay's been contracted for.

The item follows.

No Kidding: Milli Vanilli, the Movie

Milli Vanilli will sing again. The pop duo that topped the charts before it was exposed as a fraud will be the subject of a film to be written for Universal Pictures by Jeff Nathanson, who rendered a sympathetic portrait of a con man with his screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me If You Can” (2002), Variety.com reported. In case anyone has forgotten, Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus were hired by the German producer Frank Farian to front Milli Vanilli, for which he had already recorded the voices of other singers. After the two men topped the charts and sold millions of records, Mr. Morvan and Mr. Pilatus refused to promote the second album unless Mr. Farian allowed them to sing. Instead he exposed the fraud. Their 1990 Grammy for best new artist was revoked, class-action lawsuits were filed, and Arista Records dropped Milli Vanilli. Mr. Pilatus became a drug abuser, served time for robbery and died of an overdose in 1998 before a reunion album could be released. “I’ve always been fascinated by the notion of fakes and frauds,” Mr. Nathanson said. “But my intention is to tell this story from their point of view.”