Mariah Carey may be in ET for film shoot
Mimi in East Tennessee? Look cool, y'all. Sultry Top 40 siren Mariah Carey could be in the house - and by "house," I mean the Knoxville area - in a few months to film her new movie, titled, appropriately enough, "Tennessee". What? How can this be? Why is she doing this? Enough with your questions already. Am I not a mere mortal? OK, here's the scoopage.
Former Knoxville resident Russell Schaumburg wrote the screenplay for "Tennessee", an independent film going into production in November. It's about two brothers who hit the road to Tennessee to reunite with their estranged father. Russell is a 1989 Webb High School graduate, and "Tennessee" is the first major screenplay he has sold. Part of the movie plays out in New Mexico, another part in Texas, and the last part in Nashville and the East Tennessee area, near the mountains.
"I think there is a really good chance they will shoot something in East Tennessee," Russell told the Insider recently. "Mountains play a significant thematic role in the movie." If it happens, the filming probably would happen either at the end of the year or early 2007. And, of course, Mariah would be part of it along with co-stars James D'Arcy and Ethan Peck.
Mariah, or "Mimi", as the peeps in the biz call her, will play Krystal (yes, named after the restaurant), an aspiring country music singer who gets caught up in a road trip to Tennessee. "She plays an important role in helping the boys go home," Schaumburg says.
Schaumburg has not met Mariah yet, but he's already daydreamed about what he would show her of his hometown. "You know about the fireflies up in the mountains that do their dance? I would love to take her there to see it," Schaumburg says. "I think she'd dig that. And I'd probably take her to eat at the Tomato Head."
Later he e-mailed the Insider to amend his dream: "I would take Mariah on a boat down the Tennessee River to a big UT football game. I mean, that's a no-brainer! It's true East Tennessee at its best: A big boat, a big game, a big time at Neyland Stadium in the fall - that's the ticket." After that? "Well, I'd like for her to do a private concert at the Tennessee Theatre for me and 1,000 of my closest friends," he says with a laugh. Ah, that boy dreams big. (KnoxNews)
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