Jennifer Hudson to play Aretha Franklin in biopic

[RobertZ]

I see there was a video with Taraji Henson explaining why she wants to portray a live Diana Ross and how she will try and make contact with her to explain why.

The portrayal of a live icon is not a good idea. Why on earth would Aretha Franklin assist in the portrayal of her life which shows all the warts like David Ritz's book showed? Are they going to show a bunch of the relatives that are now dead but spoke to David and told them negative things about Aretha?

And if you don't portray a real life, does anyone want to see some plastic, fluffed up, glorified love fest saying that everything in her life was perfect and we should all stand up and cheer?

Having children at 13 and weighing 400 lbs. tells you there is trouble and there definitely is trouble ahead for this venture while Aretha Franklin is alive.

Well, the article does say "in talks", which means, really - nothing. Ms. Franklin has been "in talks" about this project for at least 10 years. If the film is based upon Ms. Franklin's autobio, it will indeed be fluff-awards-fluff-bummer marriage over which she triumphs-fluff-acclaim ... you get the picture. Personally, being an Aretha-holic, I feel I know all about her life I need to know. If a movie turns out well, hurray for everyone - but really, who needs it?

[Bluebrock]

Well, the article does say "in talks", which means, really - nothing. Ms. Franklin has been "in talks" about this project for at least 10 years. If the film is based upon Ms. Franklin's autobio, it will indeed be fluff-awards-fluff-bummer marriage over which she triumphs-fluff-acclaim ... you get the picture. Personally, being an Aretha-holic, I feel I know all about her life I need to know. If a movie turns out well, hurray for everyone - but really, who needs it?

Agreed Robert. I couldn't have put it better myself so I won't even try!