Val Kilmer Will Play Porn Legend John Holmes

[Atrail]

Entertainment Weekly

Val Kilmer will play porn legend John Holmes. Lisa Kudrow and Kate Bosworth may join him in ''Wonderland'' by Gary Susman

Move over, Mark Wahlberg. Variety reports that Val Kilmer is about to star as porn legend John Holmes in ''Wonderland,'' a movie about Los Angeles' notorious Laurel Canyon Murders. In talks to join him in the film, according to the Hollywood Reporter, are Lisa Kudrow, who'd play his first wife, Sharon; ''Blue Crush'''s Kate Bosworth, who'd play his teenage lover; and Christina Applegate and ''Sweet Home Alabama'''s Josh Lucas, who'd play Holmes' friends, Ron and Susan Launius.

Holmes, the famously well-endowed porn star of the 1970s and '80s, was an inspiration for Wahlberg's Dirk Diggler character in ''Boogie Nights.'' He was also allegedly present at a drug-related quadruple homicide (along with the Bosworth, Lucas, and Applegate characters) in 1981, though he was ultimately acquitted of any involvement in the crime. He died of AIDS in 1988. Both Holmes' ex-wife and former girlfriend have been consultants on the project, director James Cox (''Highway'') tells Variety. He'll shoot the film for Lions Gate in November.

 

[tcsenter]

Of all the worthy stories to be told...leave it to fruity ass Hollywood to pick the life of a freaking porn star.

 

[JC]

John Holmes.....that's some big.....errr.....shoes to fill

JC

 

[ElFenix]

christina applegate is hot

 

[isasir]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
Of all the worthy stories to be told...leave it to fruity ass Hollywood to pick the life of a freaking porn star.

With a pretty strong potential cast of actors/actresses to boot.

 

[Atrail]

The story is actually an interesting murder case. I had never heard of it before, they call it the
"Wonderland Murders"
Here is another Link

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: Atrail
The story is actually an interesting murder case. I had never heard of it before, they call it the
"Wonderland Murders"

Yeah, weren't they blugeoned to death with a 'large, blunt object'? :Q

 

[yellowperil]

After Boogie Nights it seems to become fashionable to do biopics about the porn industry. There's another film coming out as well. I doubt any of them will match P.T. Anderson's writing achievement though.

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
christina applegate is hot

*nods*

 

[Iron Woode]

Didn't John Holmes have sex with 5000 women or something like that. He wasn't that tall either.

 

[Atrail]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Didn't John Holmes have sex with 5000 women or something like that. He wasn't that tall either.

Yeah and he died of AIDS too!

 

[Iron Woode]

There was speculation that he was murdered because he knew too much about the murders.