Dave Franco to play Vanilla Ice in upcoming biopic
completemusicupdate.comYou know which pop star is crying out for a biopic? That’s right, Vanilla Ice. The rapper is set to be played on the big screen by Dave Franco, co-star of ‘The Disaster Artist’, the 2017 film about the making of the much derided movie ‘The Room’.“We have been in development for a while but we are inching closer and closer to pre-production”, Franco tells Insider, adding that his approach to the Vanilla Ice film is similar to that of ‘The Disaster Artist’: “With that movie, people expected us to make a broad comedy where we make fun of [‘The Room’ director] Tommy Wiseau, but the more real we played it, the funnier and [more] heartfelt it was – that’s the tone we want for this one as well”.Vanilla Ice himself – real name Rob Van Winkle – has.
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