Bill Hicks, the anarchic comedian who shocked enough people in the late 80s and early 90s to be dubbed 'Goat-boy', is to be played by Russell Crowe in a new biopic. His tale has enough laughs, drink, drugs and general chaos to be bog-standard comedian biopic material, and the film is likely to raise more laughs than similar material such as the very intense 1975 Lenny Bruce biopic Lenny. I guess we'll find out if Mr. Hicks was quite as sex-starved as he was always complaining of...

Russell Crowe's comic timing is the x-factor here (the 'lesser of two weevils' gag in Master & Commander aside), but the strength of Hicks' material will carry the day. The emotional impact of the piece sits with the death of anti-establishment icon Hicks from cancer in 1994 at the age of 32.

The Second Coming Of Bill Hicks [Den Of Geek]

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