Untitled Phil Spector biopic
Potential Cast: Tom Cruise

Long before Phil Spector was on trial for murder, Tom Cruise began developing a biopic of the legendary music producer who shepherded into superstardom artists ranging from the Ronettes to Ike and Tina Turner. Cruise enlisted his Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe, but their script about the "wall of sound" inventor stumbled when the duo couldn't figure out an ending. Even though Crowe left the Spector project to direct Almost Famous, Spector's specter has never really left Crowe: the director cast the music producer's daughter in bit parts in Almost Famous and Elizabethtown. Also, in an eerie coincidence, Lana Clarkson, the slain actress at the center of Spector's trial, made her acting debut in Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Project Status: Though the jury is literally out on Spector's real-life fate, the music producer is more likely to be the subject of a TV movie than a big screen one. Still, who wouldn't pay to see Cruise as a crazily coiffed Spector?

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