Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Justin Timberlake tipped to star in Baywatch movie

Timberlake could join Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff in big screen outing for 90s show, reports suggest

Justin Timberlake is being sought to be the star of a new Baywatch movie, according to reports.

Suggestions that the former boyband singer turned actor could join Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff in a big screen outing for the 90s show appear to have emanated from a report on Twitch last week. They have now been picked up across the web, though there is no word from Timberlake on the matter.

Twitch said Timberlake would play a disgraced former Olympic swimmer who tries out for the Baywatch crew. Hasselhoff and Anderson are both part of producers' plans.

Baywatch ran for 12 years until 2001, spawning spin-offs such as Baywatch Hawaii and Baywatch Nights, in which Hasselhoff joins a private-eye agency and begins investigating paranormal occurrences. A big screen iteration has been in the works for some time but so far has not made it into production.

Quite why Timberlake, now a successful Hollywood star after strong turns in Alpha Dog, The Social Network and In Time, would want to take the lead in a Baywatch movie is not explained in the Twitch report, but other sites have suggested the new film is being pitched as a humorous 21 Jump Street-style take on the original concept. The latter proved a critical and commercial success earlier this year by revisiting the long-running 80s show about police officers going undercover at US high schools.


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