Stolen Sony emails reveal that Kanye West is interested in making a feature film.
According to reports, an email dated August 4, 2012, Kanye West’s creative director Elon Rutberg emailed Sony CEO Amy Pascal pitching a Kanye West feature film.
From The Daily Beast:
“I supervise all of Kanye’s film and media projects, and we have a major film project coming up that involves both cinematic and technological innovation, so I naturally thought Sony and wanted to reach out,” wrote Rutberg. “We premiered a multi-screen cinema experience to great response at Cannes 2012, and are looking to take the storytelling to the next level with a feature length film, shot for an immersive cinema experience.”
In September, we reported that Kanye West was interested in making a comedy movie but no one was interested.
A source told the American edition of OK! magazine that “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy“, the 2004 original to that film, piqued West’s interest in comedy acting, and that “he’s told his agent to find him a role in a big comedy, but so far no one’s interested.”
We also reported that the critically acclaimed writer of ‘American Psycho’, Bret Easton Ellis, is collaborating with Kanye West in a new movie.
You know what, I can’t. It’s in Kanye Land, and that’s subject to a whole other time frame. He came and asked me to write the film. I didn’t want to at first. Then I listened to Yeezus. It was early summer last year and I was driving in my car. He’d given me an advance copy, and I thought, regardless of whether I’m right for this project, I want to work with whoever made this. So fuck it, I said yes. And that’s how it happened. That was seven or eight months ago. We’ll see what happens.
Kanye West is reportedly appearing in the upcoming Christmas movie starring Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon Levitt.
An email dated August 7, 2014, from producer James Weaver to Rogen, his filmmaking partner Evan Goldberg, and Pascal says, “We’ll have an XMAS tease for 2015. We have a specific idea to attach to THE INTERVIEW that will crush. Seth, Joe, and [Anthony] Mackie reenacting the scene from BIG on the floor piano at FAO Schwartz with KANYE WEST. It’s fucking awesome.”
