Michael Douglas IS Benjamin Franklin!

Good for Michael.

I’ll watch for Noah Jupe. I hope there’s a scene where young Temple gets his ass eaten in a Parisian brothel.

This looks fantastic. Michael is a living legend and we should appreciate him while we still have him, before the only thespians we’re left with are Ratboy and that Elvis impersonator.

r2 Hopefully he hooks up with Théodore, a twink I've had my eye on since On Becoming a God in Central Florida.

Will he exile the Virtues of Beer in the film?

r5 I should have specified it's a mini series. Eight episodes.

Will he show his ass?

Will he Fart Proudly?

Well Ben was 70 when he went to France and Douglas is like, 80.

[quote]Will he exile the Virtues of Beer in the film?

Extol.

But with his "good cosmetic work" over the years he looks near 70, r9.

I love that Michael Douglas, the once young-and-hot sex symbol-ish actor from the 70s/80s/90s, he of Streets of San Fran (yum!) and Basic Instinct, is now fully leaning into his twilight years with elder roles with depth. Not a stich of vanity here, bravo.

His hairline isn't receding enough.

Is he circumcised?

Who? Michael Douglas?

Most likely.

He's a white American.

Plus, his father, Kirk, was Jewish

Would Franklin have been circumcised?

R15 I think it was before the time of Kellogg

This looks great, but I wish HBO would do for Franklin what it did for John Adams. A whole big series. Franklin was the oldest of the Founders, and his memory and his experience went back to the 1750s, and it would be interesting to do more of a lifelong series. Seeing the slow development from wanting just a little respect and some independent power to full on revolution. Plus I love that he was involved in pretty much every big step along the way, up to the constitutional convention, where I'm pretty sure he was the oldest member. He'd experienced the whole damn story.

Kirk Douglas changed his name from Issur Danielovitch

I will say this could be very fun. I read "Yankees at the Court" about the whole American embassy to France, and it was kind of wild. There was a British spy that nobody knew about until something like 100 years later. There was the deeply paranoid, as in probably literally crazy, Arthur Lee nosing around and sure that Franklin was some kind of corrupt British agent. There was the whole falling out with John Adams. It could be really fun if they get into all of it.

[wuote] Well Ben was 70 when he went to France and Douglas is like, 80.

Lucky for him he's married to a dewey ingenue!

Ben Franklin never had to fuck me!

I'm a fan of Théodore Pellerin. Even if the drag movie was a misstep.

omg that is BAD CASTING!

Apple is fast becoming the History Channel, but with a high budget. Masters of the Air, Ben Franklin, and next week...the hunt for John Wilkes Booth!

[quote] But with his "good cosmetic work" over the years he looks near 70, [R9].

R11 Sure, Jan.

Wow, he really looks like his dad now.

Why a misstep, R22? I'm waiting for it hit streaming since it's MIA in the US.

R3, You're so boring. Re: "Elvis impersonator." We get it, you loathe Austin Butler. Because I would bet my IRA you never called Joaquin, Rami, Lange, Oldman, nor any other biopic star ever, an "impersonator." Of course, now you will labor mightily to bring forth an elephant of "but Butler was different," but bother not, for it will be as a mouse.

Too bad Franklin’s wife was dead by 1776. Poor sad old Glenn Close or Annette Bening might have finally won an Oscar playing her.

BEEEEEHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNN!!!!

Brava!^

Will he be sexually attacked by women?!?!

Franklin?!? My dear, I don't give a damn.

R27 the set up is vieillot, provincial. I want to see Théodore in a big budget success. His French and English are perfect and he's got a unique vibe and that face. He's going to typecast himself as nothing but art house material playing arty youngish roles, and very obscure art house at that. The Swiss Lionel Baier movie?

Franklin was a fat little guy. This would have been a great opportunity to cast a veteran Hollywood character actor instead of a nepo baby or a Brit, but of course Hollywood casts Kirk’s son.

Ben Franklin was known to practice nudism. Hopefully this won’t be depicted in the series.

I've been Juped!

R33 lame

R35 Danny DeVito!

Out today, for the forgetful (fat) whores among you. Reviews are strong.

[quote] This would have been a great opportunity to cast a veteran Hollywood character actor instead of a nepo baby or a Brit,

This has been proven. You can't find a better Franklin than character actor Howard de Silva

Looks like they captured the flatulence if nothing else.

Is he in Hamilton? I don't know him....

He was neck-and-neck with Kathleen Turner for the role.

r4 I am still bummed that canceled that show

[quote] I want to see Théodore in a big budget success.

You have to wait a bit longer. His next role is as Jacques de Bascher in Hulu/Disney+'s BECOMING KARL LAGERFELD.

This also looks like potential mainstream success for Théodore.

R8 I didn't know people farted openly back then.

I thought that was a fairly recent phenomenon.

They didn't start showing farts in movies/TV until the 1970s.

Ozu did it back in the 50s.

I was always under the impression that "Blazing Saddles" in 1974 featured the first on-screen fart.

R46 he was viciously slapped

Michael Douglas in OP's thumbnail looks like a DERANGED FISHWIFE

That he is, at this point.