Ok so his roving hands turned one simple little nipple into a worldwide fiasco, but former N'Sync-er Justin 'Trousersnake' Timberlake is healing the PR damage it seems by making a foray into the world of cinema.
MTV reports that after nearly a year of browsing over assorted scripts, JT has finally selected to make his big-screen acting debut in the crime drama "Edison" alongside such alumni as Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman. In order to prepare, JT plans to shadow an actual print journalist to learn what daily news reporting is like - the journos identity however is understandably being kept top secret.
Story wise, Timberlake plays Joshua Pollack, "a fresh-out-of-college kid with a counterculture bent" who gets his start by interning at a big-city newspaper who promptly fire him, as a result forcing him to work for a free community weekly where he stumbles upon a very big story about corruption in high places in the city government. He runs with the story, but ends up in serious jeopardy.
Not knowing what to do and in over his head, he turns to the owner of the weekly (Freeman), someone he had dismissed as a nobody but who turns out to be a former war correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, albeit burnt-out and at the end of his career. The two characters also make an uneasy alliance with a special investigator (Spacey) from the district attorney's office, played by Kevin Spacey.
Production begins March 8th in Vancouver.
Thanks to 'MG'
