Cameron Crowe Once Fired Ashton Kutcher Was Planning Marvin Gaye Biopic With Will Cruz

The ultimate time Cameron Crowe directed a movie, it absolutely was 2005's 'Elizabethtown,' a bust that was panned by experts and audiences with equal fervor. Would all things have been different if was the star instead of Orlando Blossom? Not likely, but that didn't stop Crowe from first relationship the '70's Show' star for your role, only to fire him later on. In this week's problem in the Hollywood Reporter, the director recognized to being frustrated with Kutcher after casting him, eventually altering him with someone else. When he cast in Elizabethtown. Kutcher wound up being still part of 'That 70's Show,' and Crowe told him he required to reserve a few days to target only round the film. But sources connected using the project say Kutcher didn't heed Crowe's words. Although he guaranteed he'd deliver when the cameras were moving, Crowe lost belief... "I'll spend several days coping with an actress, but I spent four several days with Ashton," Crowe states. "Inside a certain point, it's like, 'This is not supposed to have been.AInch Oof, poor Ashton isn't getting the most effective week, is he? Crowe also spoke to THR about his approaching film, 'We Bought a Zoo,' and the way he wooed -- and, unlike Kutcher, associated with -- Matt Damon for your lead. It started when Crowe first visited the audience of 'True Grit,' where he gave Damon a mixture Compact disk (clearly) together with a duplicate in the 1983 movie 'Local Hero,' that have a plot similar to 'Zoo.' Damon was reluctant about signing onto a film that could really are a Disney version in the book it required it's origin from (put together by Benjamin Mee), but Crowe didn't desire to make a project such as this either. In line with the actor, "Crowe mentioned: 'I know very well what you'll probably panic of unhealthy version from the movie could be a movie you will not wish to maintain. That's things i am frightened of too." Then, after hearing Crowe's mix Compact disk, Damon eventually stood a change of heart. Read a little more about your building of 'We Bought a Zoo,' a track-by-track set of the Compact disk Crowe gave Damon as well as the canned Marvin Gaye biopic starring Will Cruz (unsure points to consider that) the director tried to create, over on THR. 'We Bought a Zoo' hits theaters on December 23, 2011. [via THR] [Photo: WireImage] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook